Words to Live By.....

[wymi516]

We get too soon old and too late smart.

 

[HonorAndHonesty]

It's not what you know, it's what they THINK you know.

I was given this advice by a coworker when I was in my 20s. As I get older the words ring with more truth more every day.

 

[Boomer]

First thing I was told by the dean of the chem department of the Univ. of Illinois when I started grad school in 1969. "Never dip your pen in the office inkwell."

 

[55hambone]

Look after your pennies, and the dollars will look after themselves.

 

[JC1]

If you learn from your mistakes, you'll get one heck of an education.

If you try to make an idiot proof solution, they'll just come up with a better idiot.

 

[DriveHard]

Look after your pennies, and the dollars will look after themselves.

My brother in law "You got a dollar waiting on a dime"

 

[wings&wheels]

Never trade luck for skill.

 

[Bud]

What do you think, money grows on trees.

 

[skyactiv]

Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.

 

[AZjeff]

Expect perfection. Accept excellence.

Why know when you can guess.

Unencumbered by the thought process.

 

[Inked]

Better To Live One Day As A Lion Than A Hundred Years As A Sheep

 

[BusyLittleShop]

If you can't kid you can't live...

 

[gfh77665]

Get er' done.

 

[BusyLittleShop]

Stupidity is never a threat to democracy... the threat is the illusion of knowledge...

 

[Number_35]

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're missing half the fun.

 

[Number_35]

When I was 20, I was grocery shopping and this hippy guy came up and pressured me into buying an LP "to help the children". He said it was a great album, featuring George Harrison among others. It was sold by donation. I reluctantly gave him $10, mostly to make him go away, and he kept on bugging me until I upped it to $20. This was in '77/78, and $20 was a lot of money - perhaps a tank and a half of gas for my '71 Biscayne, or several times my hourly wage. I was absolutely kicking myself afterwards.

The album was unlistenable - I didn't even get through Side A. Way too much sitar for my liking. It turned out it was produced by the Hare Krishna folks.

I told an older man at church this story, and he said "Sounds like you got a dollar's worth of record, and $19 worth of experience".

 

[Number_35]

On the mechanical side -

Regarding the value of regular maintenance:
"Oil is cheaper than metal."

Regarding the assumption that the misfire can't be due to spark plugs (or points, or plug wires ...), because you just replaced them:
"Just because it's new doesn't mean it's right!"

 

[Number_35]

A veteran coworker, upon being brought in from the field to do design work, and seeing the fancy computer at his new work station:

"Huh, they're puttin' a $200 saddle on a $50 horse "

 

[ctrcbob]

Any short phrase that through experience or observation, you’ve come to realize are words to live by. I’ll start us off with......
“When Mama ain’t happy, no one’s happy”

“and when Papa ain’t happy, nobody cares”.

 

[silverrat]

"One of the most guaranteed ways to mess up your unemployment money is to get a job"