# Corny aphorisms that you’ve come to live by
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 19, 2021, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306 "2021-12-19T06:22:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/1 "2021-12-19T06:22:17Z")
Not even “OK Boomer” material, since these were hoary old axioms before Abe Lincoln had his first shave.
_Waste not, want not_. Checking my privilege, granted, since a big bad hit would wipe me out regardless of frugality. But when you can always make do, you never do without.
“_Hunger makes the best sauce._ Keeping from getting jaded by some degree of self-denial. Gratification is a bottomless pit; satisfaction is a commanding height.
_I’m a little lad who loves berries and cream._ Wait - that’s a great truth but not an aphorism.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/2 "2021-12-19T06:25:02Z")
_I’d rather be lucky than good._
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### Author:  [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/3 "2021-12-19T07:23:55Z")
_I wish I was born rich rather than good looking_
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/4 "2021-12-19T11:03:55Z")
_If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it._
mmm
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/5 "2021-12-19T11:32:23Z")
_Fool’s names and fool’s faces
Always appear in public places_
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### Author:  [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/6 "2021-12-19T11:51:13Z")
You get what you pay for.
No pain, no gain.
What goes around, comes around.
Tit for tat.
There’s no free lunch.
In my opinion, these are all making the same point, namely, that everything will eventually balance out, like it or not.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/7 "2021-12-19T11:55:35Z")
_A Discordian is Forbidden of Believing what he Reads._
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/8 "2021-12-19T12:14:23Z")
Play stupid games; win stupid prizes.
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### Author:  [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/9 "2021-12-19T13:17:41Z")
A couple of them:
_Not my circus, not my monkeys._ Not original but a great expression.
_All jobs are harder than they look._ This one’s original. It’s a way of keeping myself humble when frustrated waiting on things.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/10 "2021-12-19T13:23:21Z")
_A stitch in time saves nine._
_An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure._
[both definitely expressing the same sentiment]
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### Author:  [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/11 "2021-12-19T13:37:39Z")
In chaos there is opportunity
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/12 "2021-12-19T14:53:34Z")
Slightly twisted:
Early to bed, early to rise and you’ll get your own damn breakfast.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/13 "2021-12-19T17:16:43Z")
Accept the things I cannot change (other people, most things), change the things I can (myself, my attitudes).
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### Author:  [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/14 "2021-12-19T17:37:39Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> _I’m a little lad who loves berries and cream._ Wait - that’s a great truth but not an aphorism.
Pardon me. What kind of Starburst did you just say?
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW4capPlnWI)
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/15 "2021-12-19T18:22:38Z")
The early bird gets the worm.
But:
The early worm gets the bird.
The good is the enemy of the best.
But:
The best is the enemy of the good.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/16 "2021-12-19T18:37:37Z")
Your failure to plan ahead doesn’t make it my emergency.
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### Author:  [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/17 "2021-12-19T19:46:32Z")
_It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice._
_Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me._
Sorry, OP specified corny.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/18 "2021-12-19T20:05:18Z")
One I made up myself, and I abide by it:
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth over-doing.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/19 "2021-12-19T20:27:24Z")
> [@Keeve](#):
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> No pain, no gain.
No pain, no pain.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/20 "2021-12-19T20:33:43Z")
It never hurts to ask.
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