More maximums for swollen minds.
- A mind filled with useless facts is like a pile of sand lying in the Sahara.
- Great minds are more interested in ideas than scraps of paper called money.
- Great minds like great ships need a great space to function.
- Those who have acquired wealth know well those who seek it.
- Great weight may hang on tiny wires that are prepared to hold it.
- A blue whale’s tiny sperm may have an immense future ahead.
- Climate change is unhealthy for humanity adapted to what is here.
- Unresolvable grief will crumple one’s will.
- In a world of chickens, a stupid man will rule the roost.
- A chainsaw is a useful thing but not to shave with.
- Avoid betting your whole life on one uncontrollable event.
- It’s the value we place on something, and not its value to others, that we value.
- He’s content who knows he doesn’t have to worry about sowing oats.
- A harvest-time may come when there is nothing to harvest.
- Not too fast, and not too slow; timing is sometimes life or death.
- Instant fame based on luck is instantly forgotten.
- Don’t pet a silent dog with his ears laid back, and his tail hung low.
- He bought a bottle of ink and wrote Hamlet.
- Impenetrable castles built for English kings are now homes for English sparrows.
- He cooked me a wonderful dinner and salted it with his verbal piss.
- What they do, not what they say, what they do, not what they say they do.
- It’s a lucky man who can proudly say, “I made that.”
- Mankind may be crazy, but a sage tries to correct the situation.
- When arguing they grit their teeth and chew their words like two dogs on a rope.
- He would be more famous if he put his horn in his pocket instead of his mouth.
- If you deal with the devil, you better have a secret identity in the outback.
- His head got so full of fat that it squeezed any good sense out.
- Politicians can speak out of all sides of their mouth at the same time.
- Opposing groups with skin in the game get things right more often than I do.
A concluding comment. All of these maxims are concluding comments.