Best Advice Given, in a Single Sentence

[Josh Kinzey]

If they don't find you handsome, they should atleast find you handy.

 

[aeopav]

Argue for your own limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

 

[dynahoe]

do as much as you can from where you stand then move on

 

[Schurkey]

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

[FTG-05]

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet!"

Abraham Lincoln, 1865

 

[bgarrett]

If you want an expert job... hire an expert.
If you want it done right... do it yourself.

Experts know how to get away with poor performance

 

[Firebrick43]

"Don't stick your finger in a hole that you would be afraid to put your pecker in". Old mech with all his fingers told me this. Being a mech on industrial and in the past heavy/ag equipment many mechs had the first joint of a finger or two from sticking their finger in some bolt hole to see how far off it was (such in a large bell housing) and it suddenly shifted shearing the tip off.

 

[Kent_B]

"Never do Budd split rims."

From my father: "If you marry for money, you'll earn every nickel."

 

[Stumpync]

From Gramps,

Always live east of where you work.

Don't get your money and your honey in the same place.

 

[zendriver]

Nobody ever kicks a dead dog.

 

[Fix Until Broke]

From Gramps,

Always live east of where you work.

Could you explain the logic behind this one please?

 

[Stumpync]

[Could you explain the logic behind this one please?]

Happy to. If you live west of your work, you will be driving into the sun every morning and every evening.
Of course, only works for those working day shift.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Get fπ¢ked!
Told to me by an employee, after warning him that he had not properly cleared the chuck on the big lathe.
I walked away. Like far away.
It took me a week to find all the bits of hair blood n skin that got sprayed over the machine shop, after I finally broke down and pressure washed the place with clorox.

 

[B.S.A. (ret.)]

Never trust a fart!

 

[jonesg]

Beat it to fit and paint it to match.

 

[jonesg]

You can't save your face AND your ***.

 

[jonesg]

If they push your buttons,
stop sewing them on.

 

[jonesg]

Be wary of that errant member,
the tongue.

 

[jonesg]

**** runs downhill

In the corp world **** floats uphill.

 

[OCJohn]

Before leaving on travel:
"Put all your money in one pile, all your clothes in another pile, then take twice as much money and half as many clothes."

 

[Robertel1]

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

-Mark Twain

 

[dan360]

"If you can turn wrenches, pull levers, back a trailer, and shift a Roadranger, you will NEVER be out of work for long."

 

[mrobins297aaa]

when Ford first started adding safety to there cars in the fifty's they were saying:

"Ford's selling safety and GM's selling cars"

 

[d.mcfarland]

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

 

[Backyard Imports]

...... don't set the brake fluid bottle next to your beer bottle.

I used to drink Dr. Pepper out of plastic, 16oz bottles. I had a friend that used chewing tobacco and spit in a similar bottle. I don't drink Dr. Pepper anymore.

 

[CoogarXR]

Along those lines, "Don't let your drink out of your sight".

That's not just advice for hot chicks at the bar to avoid getting ruphie'd. My friend and I were at a junk yard stripping a mustang interior. He was drinking a can of Mountain Dew. He'd take a swig, then set it on the roof. Well, about halfway through the job, he took a swig and hollered... A bee got in the can and stung him in the inside of his mouth.

So keep an eye on those drinks...

 

[BIG KEN]

Poor people can't affort to be cheap .

Never drink down stream from the herd!!!!

 

[rnscustom]

We're armatures every day

 

[rnscustom]

Oops see that , we're amateurs every day , darn auto correct