Philosophical maxims

[Former MemberParticipant @formermember12892]

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[Former MemberParticipant @formermember12892]

Just for fun

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Ref. __ Paul R. Ehrlich Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved March 9, 2022, from BrainyQuote.com Web site: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/paul_r_ehrlich_136878

MichaelG.

[DiogenesIIParticipant @diogenesii]

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

(Marx – Groucho, I think)

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

I know what I am doing, it's the other people who frighten me!

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

When out walking in the snow you can melt snow for drinking and cooking – provided you are not walking with a Labrador and the snow is not yellow

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

If you give a toddler a hammer everything else then becomes a nail

[Anonymous]

Before criticising someone, walk a mile in their shoes.

That way, when you do criticise them, you're a mile away.

…… and you have their shoes.

[Frank GorseParticipant @frankgorse]

If it wasn’t for free speech we wouldn’t know who the idiots were.

There are only 10 kinds of people,those who understand binary and those who don’t.

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

I was having a birthday present parachute jump bought for me by my kids.

I jumped out of the aircraft. It was then i realised i had forgotten what the instructor had told me about the chute deployment. After some time speeding to earth i saw something approaching me at speed. It was a man clinging to a cooker coming up.

I shouted , hey do you know anything about parachutes, he replied no, do you know anything about gas cookers.

Steve.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, by then some other silly s*d might have done it

If at first you don't succeed get a bigger hammer 

Edited By duncan webster on 10/03/2022 00:38:08

[Lee RogersParticipant @leerogers95060]

Do unto others quick before they do unto you.

[Lee RogersParticipant @leerogers95060]

The early worm didn't have a great day.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

"Most quotes on the internet are made up". — Albert Einstein

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

^^^

[DalboyParticipant @dalboy]

"The only people who never fail are those that never try"

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Groucho Marx has all the quotes you'll ever need

“Marriage is a wonderful institution…but who wants to live in an institution?”

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”

[CirclipParticipant @circlip]

There is no such thing as a stupid question.

Regards Ian.

I have two avatar signatures on other forums

'You might not like what I say, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong' and 'I didn't say what you think you heard'.

Edited By Circlip on 10/03/2022 10:15:42

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Derek Lane on 10/03/2022 08:32:28:

"The only people who never fail are those that never try"

"Trying is the first step towards failure." — Homer Simpson

My motto: A person who never changed their mind is a person who never thought about anything.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

My favourite is from my 1888 'Enquire Within Upon Everything'. It's 'Never meddle with gunpowder by candlelight.'

And in similar cheery vein: 'Death does not blow a Trumpet'

Dave

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

No but you might hear it coming, just very briefly, as you meddled with your gunpowder by candlelight!

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Groucho again:-

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself."

[A SmithParticipant @asmith78105]

67% of statistics are made up on the spot. – Vic Reeves

[Gary WoodingParticipant @garywooding25363]

"If you can't constrain it, you can't cut it."

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