Aphor 2020/08/28 — Gnomologia — Aphor list by SOURCE DATE — 1935/10/01/ – Charles Scamahorn
The list of links above will give a trail to the ideas presented below and an infinity of other ideas.
In my recent thumbing through quote books I sometimes rewrite what I find. Some previous examples of that trait are found in Philosophers Squared and A Dictionary of New Epigrams – A catalog, index, list. Today, I did something a little different in that I went down a several-hundred-years-old list of proverbs and redid them. The source of what I came up with probably wouldn’t be recognizable to most people, so for a while, I’m going to leave that as a puzzle. However, when you discover the source it will become obvious. Enjoy the sense and non-sense! Here goes. [2021/04/30 The book is Gnomologia by Thomas Fuller 1732 and redone by Ben Franklin ISBN 978-1-929154-32-6]
Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #1
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- The absent person will be the one accused of the crimes.
- After the bread and cheese, we come to the wine and laughter.
- Turn this over and find more wisdom?
- The absence of body is often healthier than presence-of-mind.
- Going to the law is like going into combat with money, not blood.
- If you are now happy, healthy, and wise, you are rich enough.
- Anger creates more problems than it solves.
- Even white cats are invisible in total darkness.
- Doors open quite slowly to let money run away.
- Some fish are not caught even with the perfect bait.
- Wisdom not based on foresight is ineffective.
- There are hundreds of uses for a cow besides milk.
- Many beautiful things have no monetary value.
- Good stuff’s worth increases when you’re about to lose it.
- A little tweezer can make a sleeping Samson bald.
- Some beautiful apples contain ugly worms.
- Romantic words are for the bedroom, not the boardroom.
- Many impossible things become easy with practice.
- Don’t waste your time asking a competitor for his trade secrets.
- If your body rejects something, cultivate your habits to reject it too.
- Don’t do anything from which you can’t quickly retreat.
- Enjoy your pleasures with a smile, not a smirk.
- People who have taken a vow of poverty are often without food.
- Better to have no free time than to wreck what time you do have.
- Even a devil must learn his trade.
- Don’t send a hungry kid to a party with a box of chocolates.
- Absent fathers often father more absent fathers.
- He is the kind of pirate who will destroy what he can’t take.
That’s a rewrite of a published list that’s out of copyright.