# 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:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/41 "2021-12-20T15:07:31Z")
Optimism is the first step to disappointment.
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### Author:  [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/42 "2021-12-20T15:15:35Z")
Measure twice, cut once. Good for people for people who are prone to rushing into things and making costly/wasteful mistakes.
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### Author:  [@a6ka97](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a6ka97)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/43 "2021-12-20T15:18:22Z")
I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/44 "2021-12-20T15:18:50Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#):
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> Measure twice, cut once.
Measure twice twice. 😉
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/45 "2021-12-20T15:19:37Z")
You can always cut it shorter.
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### Author:  [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/46 "2021-12-20T15:41:48Z")
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/47 "2021-12-20T16:09:55Z")
I’ve got to get over it some time. Why not now?
Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/48 "2021-12-20T16:18:51Z")
Lots of good ones.
A couple I didn’t see:
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Very few people on their deathbeds look back and wish they had spent more time at work.
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### Author:  [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/49 "2021-12-20T18:00:21Z")
If you buy less than you need, you pay for it, but you don’t get it.
When Hell is full, the dead will walk the Earth.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/50 "2021-12-20T18:05:36Z")
> [@Napier](#):
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> When Hell is full, the dead will walk the Earth.
Obligatory clip.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9iURkHgOw&t=0m40s)
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### Author:  [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/51 "2021-12-20T19:53:42Z")
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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### Author:  [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/52 "2021-12-20T19:59:12Z")
“Life is a shit sandwich, and every day is another bite”
-gotta figure there’s corn in there somewhere
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### Author:  [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/53 "2021-12-20T20:01:22Z")
If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hot dogs.
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### Author:  [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/54 "2021-12-20T20:02:47Z")
Be nice to the people you meet on the way up, you’ll meet them again on the way down.
He who conquers his own temper is greater than he who conquers a city.
(Much better than the version: “He conquers who conquers himself. - Vincet qui se vincet”)
This too shall pass. (From _Abe Lincoln in Illinois_?)
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. (Often attributed to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond, but he wrote that he heard this from a woodsman.)
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### Author:  [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/55 "2021-12-20T20:08:03Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#):
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> Be nice to the people you meet on the way up, you’ll meet them again on the way down.
The toes you step on today may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow.
> [@a6ka97](#):
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> I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Indeed.
> [@4d3fect](#):
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> “Life is a shit sandwich,
and the more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat."
If I’m not back in five minutes…wait a little longer.
And there was a whole series of these “Life Lessons” from TLC but for those of us who are NOT handy with tools…
[ ](https://i.redd.it/z5jsocd2kvd21.jpg)
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### Author:  [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/56 "2021-12-20T20:16:36Z")
Buy cheap, buy twice.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/57 "2021-12-20T20:52:18Z")
It’s not about having what you want
It’s about wanting what you’ve got
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### Author:  [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/58 "2021-12-21T02:09:59Z")
Do it right the first time and you won’t have to do it again.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Put in the work, reap the benefits.
Ask someone smarter than you.
Be humble, life will always have a lesson for you.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/59 "2021-12-22T01:27:51Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#):
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> This too shall pass. (From _Abe Lincoln in Illinois_ ?)
All Things Must Pass -George Harrison
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corny-aphorisms-that-you-ve-come-to-live-by/956306/60 "2021-12-22T01:36:45Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#):
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> This too shall pass. (From _Abe Lincoln in Illinois_ ?)
> **[This too shall pass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass)**
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> "This too shall pass" (Persian: این نیز بگذرد, romanized: īn nīz bogzarad) is a Persian adage translated and used in several languages.\[citation needed\] It reflects on the temporary nature, or ephemerality, of the human condition — that neither the bad, nor good, moments in life ever indefinitely last. The general sentiment is often expressed in wisdom literature throughout history and across cultures, but the specific phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi p...
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