8. “Just because it’s popular doesn’t mean it’s right.”
9. “Work hard, but don’t forget to live.”
10. “Your word is your bond.”
These sound so strange because common sense is so lacking today.
#2.1 “Don’t make promises while drinking.”
Because “Common Sense” is not so common these days. That’s a terrible shame. IMO
Nice list.
Most of those are timeless, and hold very sound advice.
Others:
1. If you spend all day thinking of why you hate somebody or something, you have given that person or that thing power over how you live your life. Reclaim your power, and reduce their significance in your daily routine.
Said Another Way: Happiness is the best revenge!
Some “pieces of wisdom” from the 1960s and 70s don’t hold up, such as “If you mix Pop Rocks and soda, your stomach will explode like the kid ‘Mikey’ from the Life Cereal commercials.
Great list, too bad it’s racist now.
I’m not certain if I still want to
‘Teach the World to Sing’ anymore.
Nothing good happens after midnight.
I’m in my 70’s. My Granddad taught me while in my teens to work hard learn everything you can. Once it’s in your head you own it. No one can steal it
Also
Buy ground boy. God ain’t making anymore.
During my lifetime I have seen #3 many times. I have always had a lot of respect for mentors and more especially those who help others without asking for anything in return.
I taught my children two rules to live by.
1. Life isn’t fair.
2. If you have a job, do it to the very best of your ability.
(Regardless of whether you like it or not)
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
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.”
Here’s one I learned from an OG biker when I was a teen.
” Never, and I mean never, ride your bike angry “
“Treat everyone like you might need their help someday.”
But don’t be a pushover either.
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.
“Pray as if everything depended on God; then work as if everything depended on you.”
Universal solid wisdom from 3000 years ago comes from the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible.
Never go with a hippie to a second location.
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