Maxims that Have influenced Your Life

Maxims that Have influenced Your Life

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BlindedByTheLights

792 posts

84 months

Saturday 18th March
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“Never work for someone that won’t listen” and also “trust but verify”.

GroundEffect

13,046 posts

143 months

Saturday 18th March
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This one.

Ayahuasca

27,353 posts

266 months

Saturday 18th March
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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

58 posts

11 months

Saturday 18th March
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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

498 posts

200 months

Saturday 18th March
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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

109 posts

53 months

Saturday 18th March
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"Never marry for money, you can get a bank loan far cheaper" - told to me in my teens by an old farmer

Palooka

109 posts

53 months

Saturday 18th March
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"Never marry for money, you can get a bank loan far cheaper" - told to me in my teens by an old farmer

Chainsaw Rebuild

1,841 posts

89 months

Saturday 18th March
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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

24,404 posts

214 months

Saturday 18th March
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Never try something you wouldn't want to have to explain to a Paramedic.

Evoluzione

10,276 posts

230 months

Saturday 18th March
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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

148 posts

152 months

Saturday 18th March
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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

936 posts

114 months

Saturday 18th March
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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

8,065 posts

117 months

Saturday 18th March
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Only cool kids will know this one

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

Pixelpeep Electric

8,497 posts

129 months

Saturday 18th March
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Spare tyre said:
Only cool kids will know this one

Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know
laugh @ Square tyre

Prolex-UK

2,468 posts

195 months

Saturday 18th March
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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

8,065 posts

117 months

Saturday 18th March
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Pixelpeep Electric said:
laugh @ Square tyre
Hello bredbin

cheesejunkie

638 posts

4 months

Saturday 18th March
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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

924 posts

31 months

Saturday 18th March
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Someone on here said:

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

Pixelpeep Electric

8,497 posts

129 months

Saturday 18th March
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Spare tyre said:
Pixelpeep Electric said:
laugh @ Square tyre
Hello bredbin
beer

croyde

21,207 posts

217 months

Saturday 18th March
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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.