Received wisdom

My old man used to always say "it's a brave man who goes the match without a coat". I never tire of quoting that. There are others which I'll add as I see fit.

Feel free to add your own.

You health is your wealth.

Never catch a loose horse - you might end up holding on to it all day (Lester Piggott)

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king..... tom waits

Id rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy ....tom waits

You can boil an egg in a kettle but you cant pour it out of the spout .....ivor cutler

He who rides the tiger can never dismount

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride

If you're in conflict or negotiation...

Never ask a question where you don't already know the answer.

That's one of those that makes you unpopular because you find yourself battering on with a question you all know the answer to, but the cunt you are making look more of a cunt declines to take the extra pounding. That could all but describe my couple of years on Betfair's fora.

One of my own

"but it doesn't end there".

That's for any cunt who smugly quotes me "Charity begins at home". Yeah, that proverb has two halves, cuntchops.

One of my grandad's about the nags.

"Play to lose and win if you can"

True for football but also for other walks of life

"Play the way you're facing".

God is a comedian playing to an audience that's just afraid to laugh

If you're playing cards and can't work out who the mark is at the table, it's you.

Never play cards with a man named Doc, never eat at a restaurant called Mom's, never sleep with a woman who has more problems than you do and never drink in an "Irish" Bar if it has a neon fucking shamrock in the window.

A wise man pisses when he can; a fool pisses when he has to.

You don't tug on superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind. You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger. And you don't mess around with Jim

(The late great Jim Groce)

"If I turn up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me here"

Martin Blank, hired killer, in the black comedy Grosse Pointe Blank, played by John Cusack

There are no pockets in a shroud.

Nobby Cheese wrote:There are no pockets in a shroud.

Fuck me, Tone, how did I miss that? That was another of my old man's staples along with a perennial moaner who would "bring tears to a glass eye" which isn't wisdom but is forever quoted of him.