Obiter dicta
Adapted from Daily Giggle items found at the Maltesers website.
What are obiter dicta?
- You know you have reached adulthood when you hear your favourite song in a lift.
- You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
- Teamwork is essential; it means you can blame someone else.
- A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.
- Chocolate is cheaper than therapy and you don't need an appointment.
- An escalator can never break; it can only become stairs.
- Chocolate is like air: it is not important until you are not getting any.
- If you love a man, set him free. If he comes back, it means he has forgotten his sandwiches.
- Whoever said money can't buy happiness just didn't know where to go shopping.
- Lots of people cannot count to ten; they are usually the people in front of you at the express checkout.
- What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over.
- Flattery is telling other people exactly what they think of themselves.
- Stress wouldn't be so hard to take if it were coated in chocolate.
- Most men are like mascara: they tend to run at the first sign of emotion.
- The only man who can fool all of the women all of the time is a fashion designer.
- If at first you don't succeed, order pizza.
- High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
- Nothing has done as much to bring husbands and wives together as the dress that zips up at the back.
- Housework almost certainly can't kill you; but why take the risk?
- Always be nice to your children because it is probably they who will choose your rest home.
- Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
- You can always spot the father of the bride: he is the one signing over his pension to the caterer.
- All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs had better get used to the idea.