Here are some of my prominent life-guiding principles:
- Choose wisely, treat kindly.
- Dress smartly, but party wildly.
- A family, or a marriage, is like a selfless but conjoined holistic unit. There is no ‘ i ’ in team.
- The primary educator of children are their parents through their exemplary role model.
- To successfully thrive, children need a Solid & Stable Family nest in which responsibilities for their upbringing are shared but distinctive. The father's job is to equally Provide & Protect all community members. The mother's job is to equally Nourish & Nurture. All members need ⇒
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- In football, you don't expect the goal keeper to single-handedly attack & score a goal against the opponent team.
- Wash regularly, dry properly.
- Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery! Today is a gift; which is why it's called the present.
- Change what you can and manage what you cant.
- As things grow bigger, they live longer and time runs at a slower pace for them - see chronoception.
- Joules to calories ratio: 10 J = 2.4 IT
- Nous avons toute la vie pour nous amuser, nous avons toute la mort pour nous reposer.
- Rien ne sert de courir ; il faut partir à point.
- Arbeiten um zu Leben – nicht umgekehrt!
- Manche Menschen kaufen sich Dinge, die sie nicht brauchen, von Geld, dass sie nicht haben, um Menschen zu beeindrucken, die sie nicht mögen.
- Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm; aber die zweite Maus kriegt den Käse.
- Alle Wege weisen direkt auf ein Ziel! Alle Wege führen nach Rom! Tous les chemins mènent à Rome.
- Just like you need light to see all, you need wisdom to comprehend all. Just like light must be white to view things naturally, you need sufficient knowledge before reaching valid deductions.
- There should never be any external interference with the normal development of another civilization to preserve their normal customs and cultures.
- Two wrongs never make a right.
- Source: Downton Abbey
- Harsh reality is always better than false hope!
- If there is no treatment or cure to repair or change the situation, the best solution then would be to accept the burden that chance has seen fit to lay upon you and to fashion as good a life as you’re able.
- Vulgarity is no substitute for wit!
- I said you could go for a drink of water, not a trip up the Nile.
- The business of life is the acquisition of memories.
- Principles are like prayers, noble, of course. But awkward at a party.
- If you must pay money, better to a doctor than an undertaker.
- Hope is a tease, designed to prevent us accepting reality.
- Love is far more dangerous motive than dislike.
- Heavens! Are you are building a fire, or inventing it!
- If a hammer is your only tool, every problem looks like a nail.
- If you must pay money, better to a doctor than an undertaker.
- If you want to make an omelette, you must break some eggs.
- If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with flees.
- If we all follow the "eye for any eye" rule, we will all end up blind!
- It is neither use, nor ornament.
- It's always about informed consent; but your T&Cs are really putting the con in consent.
- If we all follow the "eye for any eye" rule, we will all end up blind!
- Practicing "capital punishment" raises a society above its own laws by justifying murder and flagrantly opposing the basic commandment "Thou shalt not kill". How could such a community then even condone war, abortion or euthanasia!
- The good of the many outweighs the need of the few, or the one.
- It is better to be judged by twelve than be carried by half a dozen?
- Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- If they knew where they were heading, they would not be running so fast.
- When you squeeze the rich, it's the poor who feel the pinch.
- Manche Menschen kaufen sich Dinge, die sie nicht brauchen, von Geld, dass sie nicht haben, um Menschen zu beeindrucken, die sie nicht mögen.
- Sanity is a legal term, not a medical term.
- The feminist movement was based on the fundamental motto: "my body, my choice". A priviledge which even some children do not enjoy in several cultures still today.
- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- A punarific witticism: " Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy! "
- The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Henri Bergson (French philosopher; 1859-1941)
If you double the size of any object whilst preserving its proportions, both its volume and its mass are cubed although its surface area is only squared hence weakening its total structural integrity and increasing any heat loss.
