{"id":5692,"date":"2013-09-27T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=5692"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"22-aphorisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/22-aphorisms\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Aphorisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"silliness\"I hope you enjoy this\u00a0 Saturday Silliness spritzer with just a twist of education.<\/p>\n

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aph\u00b7o\u00b7rism<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u00a0[\u00a0\u00e1ff? r\u00eczz?m\u00a0]
\nSuccinct comment:\u00a0a brief statement expressing an opinion or a general truth. Synonyms:\u00a0saying<\/a>, maxim<\/a>, adage<\/a>, clich\u00e9<\/a>, saw<\/a>, dictum<\/a>, precept<\/a><\/div>\n
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  1. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 99 percent of lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Deja Moo: The feeling that you’ve heard this bull before.<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.<\/li>\n
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  5. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If clothes make the man, naked people have little or no influence on society.<\/li>\n
  6. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.<\/li>\n
  7. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them to where you can’t find them.<\/li>\n
  8. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn.<\/li>\n
  9. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.<\/li>\n
  10. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.<\/li>\n
  11. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eagles may soar, but weasels aren’t sucked into jet engines.<\/li>\n
  12. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.<\/li>\n
  13. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.<\/li>\n
  14. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.<\/li>\n
  15. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Success always occurs in private, and failure in full public view.<\/li>\n
  16. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles, morals and ethics.<\/li>\n
  17. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two wrongs are only the beginning.<\/li>\n
  18. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.<\/li>\n
  19. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.<\/li>\n
  20. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.<\/li>\n
  21. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Change is inevitable…except from vending machines.<\/li>\n
  22. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Don’t sweat petty things…or pet sweaty things.<\/li>\n
  23. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hard work pays off eventually. Laziness pays off now.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Original source: www.chaosmatrix.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I hope you enjoy this  Saturday Silliness spritzer with just a twist of education. aph·o·rism  [ áff? rìzz?m ] Succinct comment: a brief statement expressing an opinion or a general truth. Synonyms: saying, maxim, adage, cliché, saw, dictum, precept     99 percent of lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.     Deja Moo: The feeling that you’ve … Continue reading “22 Aphorisms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-5692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21527,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions\/21527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}