“Get it, before you forget it”.

Like taking the coffee cup off the car roof before it spills down the windshield while backing out. :gasp:

Measure twice, cut once.

Lefty loosey righty tighty.

Remembered one my mother told me when I was a teenager:

If you can't be good be careful, if you can't be careful tie a knot in it.

Find the easiest way to do the hardest part.

Ignorance is a still pond. Learning is a stone dropped into it.

Life is the greatest of all teachers.

If you don't do it, someone else will and they might fuck it up.

The maxim of the procrastinator:

Never do today what you can put off until next Tuesday, and if you can't do it then, forget about it.

You can have anything you want. You just have to stop wanting it.

Find and you will seek.

Why?

A benevolent monarch is better than a corrupt republic, while a republic of benevolent citizens is better than a despot.

Nobody knows what they want because they do not know why they want anything to begin with. In finding what is sought, one seeks what is found. Desire is not exhausted in being once fulfilled.

You do know I wasn't replying to you, right?

Aristotle is to Plato as Schopenhauer is to Kant.

Knowledge without experience is empty. Experience without knowledge is blind.

Force cannot change right.

When you get really, really tired, work twice as hard.

How many times do you have to tell a child (before you can beat him or her)? Ans.: as many times as it takes (you don't get to beat a child).

What happens after you make a dozen mistakes? You start your second dozen.

Once a moronic sheep, always a moronic sheep.

Hard work is called hard for a reason. - BFF Gidget

Never judge another for you never know what they might be dealing with behind closed doors. - Mom

There is a difference between "knowing" and "doing". - My response to telling my kids to do something and they say "I know Mom!"

If someone has a problem with you and you like who you are, that is their problem not yours. - me

Don't get mad, kill them with kindness. - Mom

When it's harder to suffer than change, we change. - not sure

Do what you love, do it honestly and with everything you have and the 'rest' will follow. - Dr. S

Only you know the answer to that question. - Grampa about relationship advice

Banned in Boston, condemned in Cleveland, and banished from the Philosophy Forum for annoying the moderators or using the word m o r o n too often.

Didn't Rex get fired for calling Trump a moron? I think Rex was more-on than off about Trump.

It wasn't me, and anyway it was an accident.

Calling out the wrong child's name in anger and then having to swear yourself into finding the right name! You know which one of you I am talking about! Get in here!

Anytime someone says "God Damnit" I respond with "Why are you bringing HIM into this?"

Oh, stop moaning. We got rid of the moron trigger just for you. Relax, celebrate, dance.

When you get really, really tired, work twice as hard. — tim wood

No. Realize you've worked too hard and never do that again. Just who are you trying to impress anyway? ;)

Some quotes I use as maxims:

Kids need your love most when they deserve it least. — Erma Bombeck

Everyone has their reasons.

That one I got from Orson Welles, explaining Touch of Evil , and he said he got it from Renoir.