Favourite Maxims:

[ProPlus]

Does anyone have any favourites:

One of mine is:

'Give man a fire he is warm for a day, set a man on fire he is warm for the rest of his life'

Some more I like are:

'If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.'
'Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.'
'The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.'
'Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.'
'99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.'

Anyone else got any good maxims??

[wolves_wanderer]

A man who chops his own wood is warm twice.

[towman]

Getting behind with your work earlier gives you more time to catch up.

[chassis 33]

For a start...

Qui bono? (Who benefits?)
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam. (Either I find a way or I make one)
For every beautiful woman there is a man wishing she'd quit complaining.
There are two ways to stay warm; gathering wood for a large fire, or sat by a small fire

Regards
Iain

>> Edited by chassis 33 on Friday 10th February 11:45

[Einion Yrth]

If at first you don't succeed................................... freefall parachuting is not the hobby for you.

[Plotloss]

If it flys, s or floats, rent it by the hour.

[GasBlaster]

I thought this was a thread on early machine guns, and was about to quote some imperialist poetry by Hillare Belloc:

"Whatever happens we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not!"

[staceyb]

"Suan Le"

Which is mandarin chinese for "let it be"

[Racylady]

Not strictly a maxim, but a good motto:
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

[Fer]

The one with Rachel Stephens on the front...

(Now where did I put my coat?)

[lizzieh]

"if at first you don't succeed, it probably wasn't worth doing anyway"

[pdV6]

towman said:

Getting behind with your work earlier gives you more time to catch up.

Man who doesn't read thread posts same thing twice

[Jaglover]

ProPlus said:

One of mine is: 'Give man a fire he is warm for a day, set a man on fire he is warm for the rest of his life'

[towman]

pdV6 said:

towman said: Getting behind with your work earlier gives you more time to catch up. Man who doesn't read thread posts same thing twice

Asked for my favourite - thats what he got!

[bor]

"As one door closes, another door closes"

How very, very true.

[deckster]

There's no 'I' in team
But there's a 'u' in c**t


>> Edited by deckster on Friday 10th February 12:34

[rico]

June 1999 was a very good issue....

[Plotloss]

deckster said:

There's no 'I' in team

But there is a 'me' if you look hard enough...

[MilnerR]

As a PhD student in my lab recently pointed out:

"it's all b0llocks really!"

I've been applying this maxim (or should that be aphorism) to every difficult life/work situation and it always applies.... genius!

[grass widow]

Racylady said:

Not strictly a maxim, but a good motto: Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

Like that idea.

What goes around comes around.