Conventional Wisdom Thread

[Joods]

Never piss off the woman who cooks your food.

[Edwardo Piet]

Never expect to impress someone by repeatedly displaying the emotional depth of an eggplant.

[Excited Penguin]

https://soundcloud.com/tydi/what-we-trul...his#t=0:00

[Thumpalumpacus]

If you don't know where you are going, you might not get there.

The above is often attributed to Yogi Berra.

If the petition of God is removed, I'm fond of the Serenity Prayer.

It's one of the anchors of my recovery, with the petition cut out. It's a thought that needs no god to get its point across -- understand the limits of your own control, act within them, and suffer no angst outside those boundaries.

[Thumpalumpacus]

My favorite is "It's always in the last place you look!"

...that's literally true, by definition.  Because then you aren't looking for it anymore.

[bennyboy]

Absolute failure can only take you to zero. But there's no limit to the heights that success can take you.

So play to win, not just to survive.

(says the guy who's like $100k in debt but still thinks he's about to be rich!)

[Astreja]

It's usually scarier to worry about things than to actually do them.

[Foxaèr]

Never be pulled in by someone selling something at an expensive price when you can get the same thing cheaper at a place where you feel diminishes your value in society.