Some re-thoughts: I see these new maxims as challenges to new thinking about old ideas. They aren’t necessarily true, but some are stimulating.
- Poor workmen with poor tools must keep one as a defensive weapon.
- Or – A poor workman’s tools must include a weapon.
- Highly charged silent people can explode into a fire with a tiny spark.
- Prepare alternate adaptations to prevent failure and promote success.
- Work a lot, spend little, and build things you can use that build value.
- Innovations change things, sometimes for the better but often not.
- When a hungry mosquito lands on a King’s arm, only he may swat it.
- If your shoes and hat fit you perfectly, consider yourself lucky.
- If someone wants to work for you, encourage him to prove it.
- If someone is stumbling over drunk, I will catch him once.
- When employees argue and see the boss coming, they are good friends.
- If you think I am a fool, put your finger in my mouth and find out.
- Would you put your finger in a bear’s mouth to find out if he would bite?
- If my belly wasn’t so greedy, I would buy that new Lexus LC F.
- When you’re in love, your aesthetic sensitivities lean toward her qualities.
- Marriage is not for you or your wife, it’s for your children.
- If money isn’t working for you, it’s working against you.
- When Imhotep said let there be mountains, mountain ranges appeared.
- If three people claim that you are a shit, better find some toilet paper.
- The sky won’t fall! There’s enough of it down here already to hold it up.
- If strokes are good to give, it is a kindness to the giver to receive them.
- If you are about to put your hand in a lion’s mouth, fill it with skunk juice.
- Yesterday’s promise not fulfilled today leaves the chance it will be tomorrow.
- If you cultivate good sense within, the world without will treat you well.
- Forgive but don’t forget; we must forgive to love, but needn’t trust to love.
- We must perform as if we know what we are doing to get anything done.
- If a word is worth a penny, a sonnet is worth a dollar.
- If you are a fool and I am a fool, even a total fool won’t get between us.
- When you buy a dog you take responsibility for its trailings.
CONCLUSIONS: This is a strange arrangement of common ideas made brief.