Thread: You reap what you sow

Originally Posted by Mike Blue

Taking your logic a bit further then, a man who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.

So then, folks who live by the razor will...

...Have the smoothest faces around.

It sounds like tbs may be identifying more closely with Solomon's woes than Jesus' farming tips

Vanity of vanities, saith the honemeister, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his honing which he honeth under the sun? One coti sharpens, and another coti dulleth: but the HAD abideth for ever.

- XLLesiastes 1

Overheard a CH-47 instructor pilot ask a flight school student that couldn't hold his altitude " Damn son did you wake up and eat bowl of stupid flakes today" Everyone on the intercom system had a good chuckle.

AFAIC biblical quotes are many times all too true and reap what you sow is definitely one of them. "Be not deceived for God is not mocked, for whatsoever thou soweth, that shall you also reap." It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow but in the fullness of time it shall come to pass.

Gautama Buddha put it in a slightly different manner,"What we are is the result of what we have thought, is built by our thoughts, is made up of our thoughts. If one speaks or acts with an impure thought, suffering follows one, like the wheel of the cart follows the foot of the ox." The whole sermon can be found here for those who are interested. IME many of these 'old sayings', particularly from biblical sources, are what are known as 'universal truths'. YMMV.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Hang on............the Bigspendur sowed this seed....now he's got the last laugh as he's reaping what he's sowed......a bunch of us trying to dissect a simple saying. I feel like a turnip that just fell off the truck duh !!!! That was it was it not ???

Now that depends on if you see the glass of water half full or half empty and by the way, which way of looking at that is right or does it not matter or is it just perspective or what does it say about the person who says one or the other-har har.

another couple of favorites I use all the time

people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones (although I would probably just mutter, people in glass houses . . .)

and let he who is without sin cast the first stone

This is one of my fathers favorites, I used to hear it all the time, basically it means if you tick the old man off, he is going to plant a boot in your backside! Ahhh ... the memories!

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

This is one of my fathers favorites, I used to hear it all the time, basically it means if you tick the old man off, he is going to plant a boot in your backside! Ahhh ... the memories!

Reminds me of an old saying from my days as a union ironworker,"Don't overload your ass with your mouth."

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Now that depends on if you see the glass of water half full or half empty and by the way, which way of looking at that is right or does it not matter or is it just perspective or what does it say about the person who says one or the other-har har.

Two words......Turnip truck.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

This is one of my fathers favorites, I used to hear it all the time, basically it means if you tick the old man off, he is going to plant a boot in your backside! Ahhh ... the memories!

Booooyeeeee you got that right !!