simple truths
 

THE FIVE RULES TO REMEMBER IN LIFE

1. Money cannot buy happiness, but it's more comfortable to cry in a
Corvette than on a bicycle.

2. Forgive your enemy, but remember the a*****e's name.

3. If you help someone when they're in trouble, they will remember you
when they're in trouble again.

4. Many people are alive only because it's illegal to shoot them.

5. Alcohol does not solve any problems, but then neither does milk.:a20:

Rule 6:
Anytime you say there is a specific number of Rules In Life, someone will instantly come up with another one.

my favorite;

the making of a banquet out of a ham sandwich mode of thinking/talking/whinning/complaining/etc.

btk

Any more? These are fun.

T i like his paraphrase better than the original:
Do NOT do unto others what you would NOT have them do unto you

That's a good one.

"Is That All There IS?, Let's Keep on Dancing" From a Kurt Weill song

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
― John Bunyan

You sure see a culture and historical period in these Proverbs!
 

Proverbs 22:17 - 24:34 - Thirty Sayings of the Wise - Saying 1 - Bible Gateway

You also see a historical period and culture in many of these:

https://www.facebook.com/WiseWordsWe...35460613159804

Here very pithy one-- "I worship the quicksand he walks in."
- Art Buchwald

It's all about mind over matter. "If you don't mind, it doesn't matter".

jblum: That is an old Peggy Lee song