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[Splinter]

'Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.' Michael Corleone.

'Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.' Julius Caesar

'Señor, liberame de las aguas mansas, que de las bravas me libro yo.'

(Lord, save me from calm waters, because I can save myself in stormy waters)  Adri's Grandma.

[Kryten]

Hmmmm.... well, I must admit to having a phobia towards the following expression:

Man who go to bed with itchy ass wake up with smelly finger.

[Splinter]

Yeah, that's a bit yucky Kryten.
One that particularly annoys me is:
'Wake up and smell the coffee.'

[Thermalsig]

My grandpa had a saying that he used in several situations and different ways. "Boy, you make more noise than a jack ass in a tin barn!". He was a very cerebral man, although being retired military, oil field roughneck, and a retired post master, used it to great advantage in life. I learned later in life through contemplation that he meant that I was handling life in a rather clumsy manner. It's true for back then, as it is for most young men. We hack our way through the jungles of life until we learn some diplomacy. I think the remark concerning keeping timid men at you side rings as the most dangerous, Splint, to answer your first question. I have a 3 shot buzz, so take that into account.

Sent by  Droid X while sniping squirrels from my roof.

[Wooster]

One I read recently that I thought was a cracker was "You can't put the shit back in the Donkey"

...basically don't stand there complaining that there's a problem, just deal with it.  

[keasy]

I can always remember the day when I fell out with my mum, about aged eight.

Exacting my revenge to counter the unfairness of how I perceived it, I twisted one of the slats of her Venetian blinds, being the main ones in the living room. She walked in and seen it. I thought I was in deep, deep shit. Rather as be in deep shit she said something like; (I can't remember exactly what she she said) "I'm disappointed in you". I knew that she knew that I knew what I had done was wrong and vindictive. She had to say say nothing more as I really felt shitty and knew I had hurt her in a way that put the whole responsibility on me. I acted like a dick. She let me stew on my own juice and I learned a valuable lesson.

Dangerous ?
Maybe not but I think it ties in with the flavour of the thread.
It certainly taught me a valuable lesson.

[Glamdring]

The really dangerous expression is the one you don't hear until it's too late.

[eatit]

"No, please don't"
 

[Wooster]

 

In jail that would probably be followed by: "You like that, huh? Oh yeah, you're my bitch now!" 

[Splinter]

I can always remember the day when I fell out with my mum, about aged eight.

Exacting my revenge to counter the unfairness of how I perceived it, I twisted one of the slats of her Venetian blinds, being the main ones in the living room. She walked in and seen it. I thought I was in deep, deep shit. Rather as be in deep shit she said something like; (I can't remember exactly what she she said) "I'm disappointed in you". I knew that she knew that I knew what I had done was wrong and vindictive. She had to say say nothing more as I really felt shitty and knew I had hurt her in a way that put the whole responsibility on me. I acted like a dick. She let me stew on my own juice and I learned a valuable lesson.

Dangerous ?
Maybe not but I think it ties in with the flavour of the thread.
It certainly taught me a valuable lesson.

Actually Keasy, the very same thing happened to me, some eons ago.
My Dad discovered, shock horror, that me and my bro and sis were smoking on holiday with them in Spain.
He found out and all he said was 'I'm disappointed in all three of you.'
That was it and he left it at that, but it had it's effect in the sense of the look and the tone
Unfortunatley, it didn't stop us smoking , which I wish it had...............