I post this list of some of my favorite aphorisms for a Christian Brother whose first name begins with the letter R.  (I don’t have his permission to share his name.  Yet.)  I hope R. is not the only one who reads this list.

Feel free to comment in order to share any aphorism(s) you cherish, relish, or savor.  😎

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Great men talk about ideas. Lesser men talk about other men. The least of men talk mainly about themselves.

Never pick a fight with an angry beehive.

Jumping to conclusions leads to pretty painful landings.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Not all wanderers are lost.

Dogs have masters.  Cats have staff.

A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.

Standing on one’s dignity makes for very poor footing.

Failure is never quite so formidable as regret.

Hard work is often the reward for hard work.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

There are two types of people in the world:  those who do the work, and those who get the credit.  Try to belong to the first group.  There’s far less competition.

There are 10 types of people in the world.  Those who get binary.  And those who don’t.

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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.  –Thomas Sowell

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did. –Denzel Washington

The currency of Eternity is not your good works on Earth: it is Jesus’s blood.  –Steve Feden

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains:  pain is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. –C.S. Lewis

Keep your face towards the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.  –Helen Keller

No bird soars in a calm.  –Wilbur Wright

Error of opinion may be tolerated so long as reason is left free to combat it.   –Thomas Jefferson

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.  –Edmund Burke