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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Re: Yiddish maxims #56167 02/13/02 02:59 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye Pooh-Bah Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 I don't understand the Rather than die of hunger, I'd sooner eat a roast maxim. Heh. I thought that maybe he was referring to my mother-in-law's cooking. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Yiddish maxims #56168 02/13/02 03:10 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky I'd sooner eat a roast maxim AUGH! Don't eat my sweet Maxie!!! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Yiddish maxims #56169 02/13/02 05:30 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 131 Alabama C Chemeng1992 member Chemeng1992 member C Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 131 Alabama I don't hear 'your sweet Maxie' opposing the idea! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: words to live by #56170 02/13/02 06:48 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... He who hesitates is lost. If sometimes we don't get lost, there's a chance we may never find our way. The big thing is to do it. --Kit Karson We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses! Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime. A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage. We grow too soon alt, und too late schmart. --Pennsylvania Dutch Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. --Madame Curie There but for the grace of God go I. --St. Francis of Assissi Never judge another man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins. --Native American Whenever they call me a dreamer, I think of Walt Disney and smile. Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. --Meister Eckhardt Enjoy life!...you might have been a barnacle. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it. --Wm Shakespeare The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. --Charles Du Bois Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. --Sir J. Mackintosh Love the one you're with. --Stephen Stills Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: words to live by #56171 02/13/02 07:16 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye Pooh-Bah Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. -- Somebody Stupid darkness! -- Lucy VanPelt Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: words to live by #56172 02/13/02 07:25 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Stupid darkness! Without darkness there would be no light. -- Somebody Else Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: words to live by #56173 02/13/02 08:19 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania Rapunzel enthusiast Rapunzel enthusiast Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania We grow too soon alt, und too late schmart. --Pennsylvania Dutch I've seen this countless times in cheap touristy booklets of "PA Dutch" or "Amish" sayings, yet I've never heard a genuine Pennsylvania Dutchman/woman actually say it. How about you, Byb? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: words to live by #56174 02/13/02 08:47 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy OP Carpal Tunnel OP of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Every one brings joy to my life, some when they arrive, some when they depart. i used to have this as a poster in my office.. and i might yet print it up in fancy fonts, and frame it.. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: words to live by #56175 02/13/02 09:13 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... I never met a man I didn't like. --Will Rogers I never liked a man I didn't meet. --Roger Wills Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: words to live by #56176 02/13/02 10:24 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA Since someone has asked me what it means to "shoot for the moon if you do hit a potato," I will say that I take it to roughly mean "it's the journey that counts, and not the destination." k Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 4 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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