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Never Build After You Are Five And Forty; Have Five Years' Income In Hand Before You Lay A Brick
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Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in
hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at
double the estimate.
-- Kent
Related:
Kent: And how long have you been on the streets? Ba
Going on five years, Kent. Kent: Ah. Son, your family might be watching....
Scott: And now over to Kent Brockman for some grim economic news.
Kent: Scott, things aren't as happy as they used to be down here at the unemployment office....
Murphy's Fourth Law of the Kitchen: When the meal you are preparing is on schedule, the guests will be forty-five minutes late.
Corollary: When the guests are on time, the meal will be forty-five minutes late....
Five-Minute University teaches you in five minutes what the average college student remembers five years after he or she's out of school .
.. Say, if you want to take Spanish, what I teach you is "Como esta usted....
If you have not changed your vacuum cleaner bag in the past five years, you can forget it, since it is a little late now.
When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.
-- Louise Andrews Ke...