As I got out of bed this morning I recalled my paternal grandmother's words

[malaise]

from way back when she said them to my then five year old brother.

"Learn not to brag, learn not to boast,
Grief comes to him who brags the most".

I didn't know then that they weren't her original words, but they had a profound influence on my life. I always avoided people who boast and show off.

What I do know is that no one ever said them to the short-fingered vulgarian - Groper Don the Con.
It's grief time Groper - you're going down.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Your grandmother sounds like a wise woman, whether those were her words or a saying she adopted.

My grandmother said "Live and learn. Some people only live".

I don't know if those were her words or not, but they are pretty profound, nonetheless.

[malaise]

4. and no one ever said them to

Groper

[Bob Loblaw]

2. One from my grandmother

"He doesn't know anything more about that than a pig knows about Sunday."

[malaise]

3. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

She was correct re the Con

[watrwefitinfor]

5. My down to earth southern grandmother:

It's a piss ant.
Step on it.

Wat

[ButSeeYa]

6. My Mom used to quote a Bible verse...

Whatsoever is done in secret, will come out to marvelous light.

[onlyadream]

9. What a tangled web we weave,

When we practice to deceive.

Another mommism.

[malaise]

12. Isn't that the truth

I'm assuming you have a Jamaican background?

[ButSeeYa]

14. Yes, mi dear.

We left JA for the US when I was 4, but Mom didn't allow me to forget my Jamaican heritage.

[malaise]

15. Di ButSeeYa

was a 100% giveaway

[ButSeeYa]

18. Given your Avatar

I take it the same is true for you?

[malaise]

19. I live in Jamaica

one of my siblings was born in the US- the rest are naturalized. I don't even have a green card. I'm all Caribbean

[ButSeeYa]

21. Wow!

I will be assisting an orphanage in Kingston by way of sending clothing, etc., as a way of giving back. I plan to visit the orphanage soon, so will be on the Island for the first time in 14 years.

[malaise]

22. Well done

[Vinca]

7. It seems your grandmother could presage the future.

Any lottery numbers?

[malaise]

16. She should have given me them

[onlyadream]

8. Pride comes before a fall

That's my mom's quote.

Really cannot wait for the fall to finally happen!

[katmondoo]

13. That quote reminds me of the movie "The harder They Fall"

The higher up you are the harder it is on the way down. Don, may you have the biggest and the hardest fall ever when you hit bottom.

[Bettie]

10. My grandma used to remind me

that actions have consequences.

He's never seen that in practice either. He has never had to face actual consequences for anything he's done.

[Butterflylady]

11. I have found this to be very true

What goes around comes around. One day orange face will pay dearly for what he has done. I truly believe this.

[enid602]

17. From my Nana

It's always the ones who lead the Barbie and Ken lifestyles that end up shocking you the most.

[RandomAccess]

20. I've never been one to wish harm on any one else,

no matter how much I disliked them.

Until Trump. Not just Trump but Trump-in-the-White-House.

Almost daily I am LIVID and OUTRAGED that some absurd combination of factors happened give us this monstrous and pathetic joke as President.

Vehemently and energetically, I wish him every possible bad thing to repay him for an entire life of chicanery, thievery, deceit, unparalleled greed and self-aggrandizing, self-serving, self-entitled malfeasance.

I do NOT wish him physical harm -- but I also can't think of anything that might happen to him physically which would cause any remorse, regret, sympathy or empathy for him personally.

And I'm not too far behind all this where his grifter children are concerned.