“Once a cheater, always a cheater”
Someone who says, “You’re too good for me” will eventually prove it.
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20% of the people (whatever the situation) will cause 80% of the problems
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Never complain about your problems to other people - 80% don’t care and have their own problems, and 20% are actually glad to hear you’re having problems.
Which fits in with : People will tell you who they are, it’s your job to listen.
Don’t start none, and there wont be none.
Words to live by.
Or get beaten within an inch of your life.
The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are one of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.
-Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
“Everybody wants to be black until the police come” --D.L. Hughley
I don’t have personal experience with this, but it’s funny and rings true.
The early bird gets the worm. (True except for the early worm.)
Life is like a box of chocolates-you never know what you’re going to get. - Forrest Gump.
Easy come, easy go.
Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning. Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.
Don’t piss into the wind.
You can put lipstick on a pig…
The counter I’ve heard goes something like this:
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
It is best to keep your mouth shut and let people thing you’re a fool than to open it and confirm it.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you account for Hofstadter’s Law.
The two rules for success:
- Never tell everything you know.
I modified this saying a few years back to deal with things and to shut up whiners.
"Shit happens, the you wipe your ass."
Basically, you just have to learn to deal with things, even if that means learning to live with the stink.
Another one I live: "Life shows up everyday and doesn’t care what kind of mood you’re in."
I hadn’t heard that one; it has a very strong air of truthiness.
Cheap isn’t.
There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
One of my favorites:
Don’t mud wrestle with pigs. You’ll just get dirty and the pigs like it.
J.
There’s an expression in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina regarding “the eternal error men make by imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes” which I’ve tried to keep in my head since I first read it.
I have the horrid feeling that it was a Dr Philism. It has that ‘true but sickly cute’ ring to it.
Your dog doesn’t think he’s a person, he thinks you’re a dog.