Truisms and Maxims

[side_show]

I find truisms and maxims interesting. 

One of my favorites (see my sig) appears on this list.

Additional favorites of mine are:

Don't be a dick.
This too shall pass.
&
It is what it is.

Also:
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi (attributed)

[theinevitable]

I had typed one out here and then the window got closed and I cannot remember it. It was a good one.

The two I remember are:
"at the end of the game, the king and the pawn get put in the same box."
and
"if work were good for you, the rich would leave none of it for the poor."

[Choop]

if it tastes good, it probably isn't good for you. (this is much less true since i started cooking vegetables. i hope.)

[littlefallsmets]

"If you can dance to it, it isn't real music" - my dad

"There are no unlucky pennies because, hell, it's free money lying on the ground, that's always lucky" - my grandfather

[theinevitable]

My roommate's obnoxious, simplistic, doesn't-mean-anything motto is "shit matters."

Mine is "different things are different."

Lately I am trying to formulate a pithy way to say that anyone who tries to tell you that anything is easy or simple, especially moral judgments, is up to no good or trying to get you to do something.

I'm also a big fan of that trick where you tell someone to decide between voting for the rude, womanizing alcoholic and the polite, vegetarian non-drinker, and then SURPRISE the second guy is Hitler and the first guy is Winston Churchill or whatever. Which I guess goes back to what I said above... people are complicated and don't let anyone try to tell you it's easy to decide who is good.

[littlefallsmets]

Dan, all you gotta do for that is quote "The Muppets Take Manhattan":

Peoples is peoples.

That basically shoots down anything.

[Mr Trout]

Seven: this rule is so underrated
Keep your family and business completely seperated

[greenkoolayd]

I'm also a big fan of that trick where you tell someone to decide between voting for the rude, womanizing alcoholic and the polite, vegetarian non-drinker, and then SURPRISE the second guy is Hitler and the first guy is Winston Churchill or whatever.

was hitler polite?  is it ignorant of me to find that hard to believe?

also:

"you shouldnt throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you have a glass jaw you should watch your mouth."

[jaydub]

One of my favourite maxims is in my sig.  Most of the others can be found in Time Enough For Love.

[dejavroom]

From my dad: "The world's hard for those who're soft"

[jay-ell]

My roommate's obnoxious, simplistic, doesn't-mean-anything motto is "shit matters."

Mine is "different things are different."

My ex's was, "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke."

Personally, I like another Gandhi quote: "Live simply that others may simply live."

My paternal grandfather, who I never met, was a plumber, and he lived by the rule that you only needed to know 4 things to be a good plumber. They were (in order): 1) Water goes up, 2) Shit goes down, 3) Hot's on the left, and 4) Lunch is at noon.

Some famous quotes from my dad:

"Nothing hard is ever easy."
"If 'ifs' and 'buts' were fruit and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas."

And the most cryptic response to an "if" statement ever:

"If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a stagecoach."

[Choop]

I think I've got one as cryptic: "If dog, rabbit." As pertains to the inevitability of the situation due to a fact in the past. I think.

as for gandhi, my favorite quote is: "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

[littlefallsmets]

Are you sayin' Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?