# The pithiest advice you ever got...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pithiest-advice-you-ever-got/795067>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 30, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pithiest-advice-you-ever-got/795067 "2017-08-30T00:11:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pithiest-advice-you-ever-got/795067/221 "2024-06-11T20:10:15Z")

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> [@Kobal2](#):
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> > [@cwthree](#):
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> > “What your brain forgets, your feet make up”
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> > - various relatives
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> That’s actually an idiom in France ! “Quand on n’a pas de tête, il faut avoir des jambes”. When you don’t have a head, you gotta have legs.

It’s an idiom in German too: “_Was man nicht im Kopf hat, muss man in den Beinen haben._”

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**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pithiest-advice-you-ever-got/795067/222 "2024-06-11T21:07:53Z")

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Pragmatism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

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**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pithiest-advice-you-ever-got/795067/223 "2024-06-11T21:24:16Z")

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Checking the work of another carpenter before I built off of it I took out my 4’ level. An older carpenter said “Don’t do that. You’ll only discourage yourself…”

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**Author:** ![CoolHandCox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coolhandcox/32/16233_2.png) [@CoolHandCox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoolHandCox)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pithiest-advice-you-ever-got/795067/224 "2024-06-11T21:41:25Z")

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You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.

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**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pithiest-advice-you-ever-got/795067/225 "2024-06-12T01:59:35Z")

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> [@CoolHandCox](#):
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> You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

Muhammad Ali

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**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pithiest-advice-you-ever-got/795067/226 "2024-06-12T03:32:41Z")

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“Too bad, suck it up and deal,” advice from my late Father. I certainly felt pretty pithy about it.

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