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What are your favourite maxims? Please share!

 
Mr Z

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What are your favourite maxims? Please share!
I am developing a little book of maxims for my son. Please help me to aggregate the best ones from our GLP family. :)


Here are a few that have made it into the first draft:

• Anything that keeps your attention is your master.
• Never complain about what you permit.
• Anything permitted increases.
• Struggle is the proof that you have not been
conquered.
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
• Don’t be perfect, be creative.
• Conversation with a like-minded individual will heal
the soul.
• A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
• Actions speak louder than words.
• A watched pot never boils.
• An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
• Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
• United we stand, divided we fall.
• Necessity is the mother of invention.
Mr Z
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• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

 Quoting: Mr Z


...mmm...dunno....personally I wouldn't mind two in a bush


5a
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You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.
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• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

 Quoting: Mr Z


...mmm...dunno....personally I wouldn't mind two in a bush


5a
 Quoting: Brit Perspective


I can resist anything..... except temptation its self!!
IF YOU HAVE A FEVER DO NOT LOWER IT WITH MEDS.... A FEVER IS AN IMMUNE SYSTEM RESPONSE TO A PATHOGEN (VIRUS, BACTERIA ETC..) IT MEANS YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IS WORKING PROPERLY....DONT USE DRUGS TO LOWER YOUR TEMP.
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always aim before you shoot
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always aim before you shoot
 Quoting: Abu A


Think with the big head, not the little one banana2
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A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.
You cannot conquer a free man.
The most you can do, is kill him.
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• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

 Quoting: Mr Z


...mmm...dunno....personally I wouldn't mind two in a bush


5a
 Quoting: Brit Perspective


A bird with a bush, is worth a hand or two.

5a
Mr Z  (OP)

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Thank you everyone - keep them coming, even the smartass funny ones lol
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Absolute power corrupts; absolutely.

Measure twice; cut once

You can't pick your neighbors or family.

Last Edited by optics on 11/22/2021 06:03 AM
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You don't get to pick who you fall in love with, and you cannot make them love you back.
BAAAAA!! = BAAAAA!!
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what's done is done

and

done count your chickens before they're done
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The best thing in life is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
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Better to walk alone in the right direction

Then join the crowd and move against your own soul
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Soonest begun is soonest done.

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

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...it's a sign of the nation's decay.

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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Once the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.


A sgt. in motion outranks a lt. at rest.

Forgive those who trespass against you, but remember the bastards name.

Negotiating from a position of strength is best, but always have a clear line to the exits.

Tracer rounds work both ways.
You cannot conquer a free man.
The most you can do, is kill him.
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Better late than never

Count your blessings and then, count them again

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

When you are weak appear strong, when you are strong appear weak

Tradition is not the worship of embers but the preservation of fire

Any time you feel like dancing is a perfect moment

Live like you are going to die tomorrow, farm like you are going to live forever

Fake it til you make it

You are always in the palm of God's hand
“A grower of turnips or shaper of clay, a commot Farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.”
Lloyd Alexander, The Castle of Llyr
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Can't fix stupid.

and

Life is hard, it is harder if you're stupid.

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I am developing a little book of maxims for my son. Please help me to aggregate the best ones from our GLP family. :)


Here are a few that have made it into the first draft:

• Anything that keeps your attention is your master.
• Never complain about what you permit.
• Anything permitted increases.
• Struggle is the proof that you have not been
conquered.
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
• Don’t be perfect, be creative.
• Conversation with a like-minded individual will heal
the soul.
• A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
• Actions speak louder than words.
• A watched pot never boils.
• An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
• Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
• United we stand, divided we fall.
• Necessity is the mother of invention.
 Quoting: Mr Z


Above ALL else to thine own self be true
The 14th Amendment was never ratified.
Almost every breathing naturally born American is a slave.
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
 Quoting: BFD State Line Crosser


That was already listed in the 1st post.

The shortest: Asking costs little.

The best: Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto? Which translates as "Why should a man die when he has sage growing in his garden?"

Sage increases the amount of bile released by the liver so you absorb more nutrients.
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
 Quoting: BFD State Line Crosser


That was already listed in the 1st post.

The shortest: Asking costs little.

The best: Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto? Which translates as "Why should a man die when he has sage growing in his garden?"

Sage increases the amount of bile released by the liver so you absorb more nutrients.
 Quoting: FRANK & BEANS


Huh.
Sage advice.
I was not expecting that.
You cannot conquer a free man.
The most you can do, is kill him.
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"A fool and his monkey are soon parted"
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I am developing a little book of maxims for my son. Please help me to aggregate the best ones from our GLP family. :)


Here are a few that have made it into the first draft:

• Anything that keeps your attention is your master.
• Never complain about what you permit.
• Anything permitted increases.
• Struggle is the proof that you have not been
conquered.
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
• Don’t be perfect, be creative.
• Conversation with a like-minded individual will heal
the soul.
• A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
• Actions speak louder than words.
• A watched pot never boils.
• An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
• Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
• United we stand, divided we fall.
• Necessity is the mother of invention.
 Quoting: Mr Z


a watched pot will boil..so lie to someone, and they will always have a shadow of doubt.

;)
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Maxim #119 November 2007 Eva Mendes & Maxim #37 January 2001 Sofia Vergara.
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"A stitch in time, saves nine"

"A Stitch in Time" is the name of the best Outer Limits (new) episode.
Wake up men
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Who ever calls you dumb's no fool hf
Today was just a day, tomorrow is gonna be better.



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... never give away what you don't have ...
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... and when giving ... give from an endless source or YOU will be left without ...
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Our family celebrates The Lord's Feasts:
[link to www.grafted-promise.net]

Fools and the dead don't change their minds. Fools won't and the dead can't.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar. You are only telling the world that you fear what he might say. Quoting: CountryWise

Amos 5:13 - Therefore at such a time the prudent person keeps silent, for it is an evil time.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing half-assed.

Don't do today what can be put off until tomorrow.

Ass, gas, or grass. No one rides for free.

You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
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... early bird gets the worm ... BUT the second mouse gets the cheese! ...
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Our family celebrates The Lord's Feasts:
[link to www.grafted-promise.net]

Fools and the dead don't change their minds. Fools won't and the dead can't.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar. You are only telling the world that you fear what he might say. Quoting: CountryWise

Amos 5:13 - Therefore at such a time the prudent person keeps silent, for it is an evil time.
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This is just one of them.

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