Original question by @ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee
Better safe than sorry.
Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
If you but cheap, you buy twice.
It’s mostly true, but not true often enough that makes it worth to buy cheap (and possibly twice), hoping for the lucky inexpensive quality item, then to buy nice, hoping you won’t have to buy it twice anyway cause it was just overpriced.
Also agree on what others suggested: buy cheap first, then if it breaks, buy quality.
“Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
My life became infinitely better once I understood that saying.
You are what you eat.
A gram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.
Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
One in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Keep making that face and it will freeze like that!
Yes, your 43 face muscles tell a story depending on how you work them out, or don’t. Saw my ex after a few years and was stunned. You can tell at a glance that she’s a woman who never smiles, face entirely slack.
Waste not, want not.
Conservatism is just regression.