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10 pieces of old-school wisdom from the 60s and 70s that still hold up today
Global English Editing ^ | July 4, 2025 | Farley Ledgerwood

Posted on 07/04/2025 4:24:26 PM PDT by fwdude

Some advice fades with time. What sounded wise in one decade can feel laughably outdated in another. But every now and then, a piece of old-school wisdom sneaks up and reminds you—it’s still rock solid, even if the world around it has changed.

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KEYWORDS: commonsense; commonsensetruth
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To: fwdude

Steve Martin - Grandmother Song

Be courteous, kind and forgiving
Be gentle and peaceful each day
Be warm and human and grateful
And have a good thing to say

Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike
Be witty and happy and wise
Be honest and love all your neighbors
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant

Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus
Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent
Criticize things you don’t know about
Be oblong and have your knees removed

Be tasteless, rude, and offensive
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional
Put a live chicken in your underwear
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival


21 posted on 07/04/2025 5:13:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fwdude

Dad to us kids acting up in the back seat on a road trip: “Don’t start something you can’t stop.”

Dad to me when I was about to make a bad decision: “You need that like a hole in the head.”


22 posted on 07/04/2025 5:30:59 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: fwdude

Here’s one I learned from an OG biker when I was a teen.

” Never, and I mean never, ride your bike angry “


23 posted on 07/04/2025 5:33:10 PM PDT by cuz1961 ( )
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To: cuz1961

I’d bet a ten spot that was a life lesson he learned the hard way. Just saying.


24 posted on 07/04/2025 5:38:05 PM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS)
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To: fwdude

“Treat everyone like you might need their help someday.”

But don’t be a pushover either.


25 posted on 07/04/2025 5:39:30 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: fwdude

I heard a version of #2 the other day regarding checking out a potential girl friends personality.

Take her to dinner, but before arriving tell the waiter to intentionally make a mistake with her order.

So when you arrive at the restaurant with her, if she orders chicken, the waiter will giver her a burger. The goal is to see how she treats the waiter for making a mistake.


26 posted on 07/04/2025 5:40:50 PM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: fwdude

“Pray as if everything depended on God; then work as if everything depended on you.”


27 posted on 07/04/2025 5:50:51 PM PDT by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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To: Equine1952
"Buy ground boy."

Buy ground, boy.


28 posted on 07/04/2025 5:52:21 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Equine1952

Is ground boy like veal?


29 posted on 07/04/2025 5:57:33 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Oh, yes, that one. Boiled down to one word, two syllables.


30 posted on 07/04/2025 5:57:43 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: fwdude

Universal solid wisdom from 3000 years ago comes from the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible.


31 posted on 07/04/2025 5:59:06 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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To: fwdude

Never go with a hippie to a second location.


32 posted on 07/04/2025 6:00:22 PM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: fwdude
5. “If you break it, you fix it—or pay for it.”

I thought the phrase was "If you break it, you own/buy it."

John Kerry famously mangled the phrase during a debate against George W. Bush when he said "If you break it, you fix it" when referring to the Iraq War.

-PJ

33 posted on 07/04/2025 6:00:22 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Seruzawa

I found that one not to be true at all, Not for me, anyway.
At least not for a number of years.
I am a Night Owl by nature.


34 posted on 07/04/2025 6:01:28 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Seruzawa

“Nothing good happens after midnight.”

Grandma’s First Commandment. Still applies, too!


35 posted on 07/04/2025 6:01:48 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: heylady

My dad told me 4 things when I was young.

Son, life isn’t fair and the sooner you learn that the better off you’ll be.

People don’t care how you feel, they care what you think. (Wish that was still true)

Give a man $1.10 worth of effort for every dollar you’re paid, and you’ll never want for a job. (Not sure that’s still true)

Treat everyone you meet with the same respect you’d expect. They will soon show you if they deserve it, don’t deserve it or deserve more.


36 posted on 07/04/2025 6:09:39 PM PDT by redangus ( )
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To: fwdude

#2 “Don’t make promises when you’re happy, and don’t make decisions when you’re angry.”

is a little like the teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Never make a decision to change your spiritual practice while you are in the stage of desolation. Wait until consolation which will arrive later after patiently utilizing prayer, reflection, and an awareness of spiritual influences. A method to discern God’s will.


37 posted on 07/04/2025 6:49:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Seruzawa

Nothing good happens after midnight.

**********

Well the SUN keeps rising.


38 posted on 07/04/2025 6:57:08 PM PDT by deport
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To: lee martell

For many, it’s the hardest one.

And yet.

It’s right there in the Lord’s Prayer.


39 posted on 07/04/2025 7:10:34 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: T-Bird45

“There are two 9:00s per day.”

Something that those of us perpetually seeking good things after midnight tend not to learn until their late twenties, at the earliest.


40 posted on 07/04/2025 7:14:40 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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