Never withle while you’re pithing.
Don’t pithe me off. @Thzar-casm.
Whereas I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Can we submit insults?
“When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit.”
That’s a form of pithy observation, so yes.
Yeah, it’s the absolute pith.
Never pick your nose on a bumpy road.
Dorothy Parker was the queen of pithy observations.
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker
“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
― Dorothy Parker
“All he’d wanted was a comfortable living, somewhere sunny. To be taken seriously by the frivolous, regarded as wise by the unwise, and considered important by the unimportant.”
– Joe Abercrombie, “The Devils”
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Reminds me of what Carl Sagan said, I think on Cosmos: “we are the way for the universe to understand itself”.
Any intelligent aliens intercepting our television transmissions might take exception to that notion, though 
By “We” Carl was referring to “Sentient Beings”, not only humans I think.
“Those poor people.”
TIL where “Never play cards with a man called Doc…” came from.
Scrolling through George Herbert, one pithy quote comes to mind:
“Wow, Benjamin Franklin was a rip off artist!”
Reminds me of this one:
(In reference to newspaper columnists)
Never get into an argument with somebody who buys their ink by the barrel.
I’m not sure what the modern equivalent would be.
Never get into an argument with somebody whose followers have their own nickname.
That was a plot point in Carl Sagan’s book “Contact”.
Written in 1985, set in the very near future…Sagen predicted that the 3 big TV networks would die because of an invention called Ad-nix which muted the advertising, and earned millions of dollars for one of the characters in the book..
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re different.
What is to give light must endure burning.
- Viktor Frankl
You come from nothing. You’re going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!
Life is short. Eat dessert first.