Philosophical maxims

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

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MichaelG.

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

(Marx - Groucho, I think)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Do unto others quick before they do unto you.

The early worm didn't have a great day.

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

^^^

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

Groucho Marx has all the quotes you'll ever need

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

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

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

"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.

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