Maxims that Have influenced Your Life

[BlindedByTheLights]

“Never work for someone that won’t listen” and also “trust but verify”.

[GroundEffect]

This one.

[Ayahuasca]

GroundEffect said:

This one.

Damn I was going to do that. It has influenced many thousands of lives in the strongest possible way.

[Mick Dastardly]

Our family have gone through a very traumatic and stressful last 3 years, and the mantra that kept us going was ‘Just remember, most of the time things turn out alright in the end.’

And d’you know what, they did.

[adamfawsitt]

I was in business for 30 years and one maxim I am very glad that I followed is never have a business that serves the public, they are nuts!

I have also followed Revenue is vanity margin is sanity to good effect

Finally I'd rather be lucky then smart I like as luck plays such a part in everything you do (mostly related to timing)

[Palooka]

"Never marry for money, you can get a bank loan far cheaper" - told to me in my teens by an old farmer

[Palooka]

"Never marry for money, you can get a bank loan far cheaper" - told to me in my teens by an old farmer

[Chainsaw Rebuild]

My Dad explained to me that "It doesn't really matter what a something (we were talking about cars at the time) costs, what really matters is the difference between what you buy it for and what you sell it for"

He's right.

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Never try something you wouldn't want to have to explain to a Paramedic.

[Evoluzione]

cheesejunkie said:

Evoluzione said:

Look at their mothers, because that's what they'll turn out like.

So if you’re willing to do their mother that’s a good thing?

What if they take more after their father?

Joking.

Saggy tits and dementia i'll have to cope with, if she comes home sporting a cock and a beard i'll be down the road.

[Pepperpots]

cheesejunkie said:

“It’ll pass”.

Not very pithy but when it feels like everything is going to st it’s worth remembering it will pass.

A favourite phrase of one of the most chilled out octogenarians I know and someone who’s chilled out attitude I try to emulate, not always successfully, but I do take a deep breath and think of that phrase from time to time.

Reminded me of a phrase that may have come from Churchill but then may not...
'If you're going through hell, keep going'

[Lotusgone]

Do it now while you think about it.

That's a fairly recent one for me, a serial procrastinator. I annoy myself by realising I've thought about something several times without simply getting on with it.

[Spare tyre]

Only cool kids will know this one

Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know

[Pixelpeep Electric]

Spare tyre said:

Only cool kids will know this one

Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know

@ Square tyre

[Prolex-UK]

On life as a whole

You only get one trip up the river

Or

Never look back. Only forward

On betting

You never see a poor bookie

Edited by Prolex-UK on Saturday 18th March 12:56

[Spare tyre]

Pixelpeep Electric said:

@ Square tyre

Hello bredbin

[cheesejunkie]

Lotusgone said:

Do it now while you think about it.

That's a fairly recent one for me, a serial procrastinator. I annoy myself by realising I've thought about something several times without simply getting on with it.

I couldn’t be arsed with that approach.

More seriously I agree, get it over and done with is almost always the best approach to something you don’t want to do but know you’ll have to.

[Slowboathome]

Someone on here said:

'Once you get good at making excuses you'll never be good at anything else.'

[Pixelpeep Electric]

Spare tyre said:

Pixelpeep Electric said:

@ Square tyre

Hello bredbin

[croyde]

swisstoni said:

My mum would drop the occasional maxim into conversations.
I’m not sure they meant a huge amount to me as a child but now and again they pop in to my head.

‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be’ was one.

And true enough, I can’t think of a single situation where I’ve lent something to someone and there hasn’t needed to be an awkwardness about getting the thing back.

Oddly, if I ever have something belonging to someone else, I can’t wait to give it back to them.

Yeah, I've always found that odd. I lend and then spend ages dropping hints and just asking yet (the very rare times) when I've borrowed a tenner, it's back with them as soon as.

So I tend to avoid lending unless I can afford to lose it.