Best advice you never paid for...
- Thread starter ollie989898
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- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
"Just because the neighbours all do it doesn't mean we should"
"You're looking for the best possible answer, not the best one you can come up with by yourself, ask for help"
"You can't see into their ledger-book from over the roadside fence"
"the fence is to keep them moving forwards, not hold them back"
... all free from the old man
"You're looking for the best possible answer, not the best one you can come up with by yourself, ask for help"
"You can't see into their ledger-book from over the roadside fence"
"the fence is to keep them moving forwards, not hold them back"
... all free from the old man
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
From the college lecturer, I learned it as, 'When you look over the hedge, you don't see the balance sheet.'
He also said, 'There's many a good balance sheet been spoiled by drawings.'
organicguy
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- Location
- North East of the south west
There seems to be a lot of Wisdom in your part of NZ
and it seems to move down the generations!
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
It took me many many years to work out he wasn't quite as silly as he tried to sound ?
Lived through some pretty tough times and it just made them better, stronger, more humble.. and probably more appreciative too.
little_p
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- Location
- Powys / Herefordshire
Blessed are the Meek. For they shall inherit the earth (but not the grazing rights).
Farm as you are going to live forever. Live like you are going to die tomorrow.
Go up-country to get a wife. Go down-country to get a farm
Buy a (sheep)dog, save a man.
The best time to plant a tree was yesterday. The second best time to plant a tree is today.
dudders
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- Location
- East Sussex
- Location
- roe valley
Heard another one today that I'd never heard before. You cant buy experience but its costly to get.
jpd
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- Location
- rep of irl
from hgtg by douglas adamsI wish I'd listened to my mum when I was younger......
"Why, what did she say?"......
I don't know, I wasn't listening...
Yes,very good advice.
- Location
- S E Glos
I heard 'the best time to plant a tree is ten years ago'
Campbell
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- Location
- Herefordshire
More applicable to those of the millionaire lifestyle [must be a few on here]. "If it fly's, floats or f***s............rent it".
Yes could well be, they were both from an age (in their early years) whereby horses were still being used , in a work scenario.
If you want to think one year ahead, plant rice.
If you want to think 10 years ahead, plant trees.
If you want to think 100 years ahead, educate people.
In a similar vein: Don't marry a summer graziers daughter.