Wisdom.

[Silence Dogood]

Very true but that's not to say that criticism is never valid, constructive or worthwhile. People who don't do well with any criticism whatsoever are likely to be narcissists. People who do nothing but criticize are just a P.I.T.A. 

All valid points.  In the Book of Proverbs, the very definition of a fool is one who hates being corrected.  I'm not uncritical of all things, but I generally avoid criticizing folks with skin in the game in any given set of circumstances.  Most times if I don't like something, I usually just say nothing.

"Let thy discontents be secrets."
-Ben Franklin

[ducktrapper]

All valid points.  In the Book of Proverbs, the very definition of a fool is one who hates being corrected.  I'm not uncritical of all things, but I generally avoid criticizing folks with skin in the game in any given set of circumstances.  Most times if I don't like something, I usually just say nothing.

"Let thy discontents be secrets."
-Ben Franklin

My wife gave me a pair of socks with "Giant Music Snob" printed on them. 

Its funny though. A person I worked with once said to me, "You don't like anything." I responded by asking how many albums they owned. They said, "Maybe a hundred". I said, "I have thousands."

[StringPicker6]

I still don't get the massive appeal of Taylor Swift's music. 

[ducktrapper]

I still don't get the massive appeal of Taylor Swift's music. 

I thought we'd determined that it had something to do with her legs. 

[ducktrapper]

https://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/3322710/taylor-swift-reportedly-insures-her-legs-for-40-million-01/

[Riverbend]

https://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/3322710/taylor-swift-reportedly-insures-her-legs-for-40-million-01/

"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot." Groucho Marx

[ducktrapper]

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

- Hunter S. Thompson

    

[ducktrapper]

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

- Hunter S. Thompson

    

More humor than wisdom? 

[Riverbend]

More humor than wisdom? 

Kind of like Tom Waits..."I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."

[ducktrapper]

Kind of like Tom Waits..."I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."

Common sense. 

[Silence Dogood]

I have loved this bit from Longfellow for years. 

Look not mournfully into the Past.  It comes not back again.  Wisely improve the Present.  It is thine.  Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.


Here are some gems from Mark Twain.  Enjoy!

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. 

Be good and you will be lonesome. 

When in doubt, tell the truth. 

It is easier to stay out than get out. 

"Classic"- a book which people praise and don't read. 

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

[ducktrapper]

You get more of what you allow and less of what you don't. - anon

[Silence Dogood]

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832

"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it most always like it least."
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield 1694-1773

"No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him."
Bishop Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667

"Count that day lost whose low descending sun
 Views from thy hand no worthy action done."
 -Anon

[ducktrapper]

Oh she may be weary
Them young girls they do get wearied
Wearing that same old shaggy dress, yeah, yeah
But when she gets weary
Try a little tenderness

Written by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly and Harry M. Woods

[StringPicker6]

Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things.

[Silence Dogood]

I came across this old one in my book of quotations this AM.  It has proven true in my own life.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Another anonymous saying:

Man is the only animal that eats when he is not hungry, drinks when he is not thirsty, and makes love at all seasons.

An old New England saying I've come back to many times over the years:

Use it up, wear it out;
make it do, or do without.

Another old and anonymous one:

Education is what you have left over after you have forgotten everything you have learned. 

[Queequeg]

Your responsibility is to tell the truth, not the facts, necessarily. It could be the facts, but it's basically the truth. That means being a truthful person.

You can't tell the truth in your work if you don't tell the truth in your life. So I encourage you to be scrupulous in your truth ethic.

Even when no one's looking - especially when no one's looking. Just for yourself.
-Rosanne Cash

[ducktrapper]

Your responsibility is to tell the truth, not the facts, necessarily. It could be the facts, but it's basically the truth. That means being a truthful person.

You can't tell the truth in your work if you don't tell the truth in your life. So I encourage you to be scrupulous in your truth ethic.

Even when no one's looking - especially when no one's looking. Just for yourself.
-Rosanne Cash

Good advice especially in this day and age when we are perpetually bombarded by lies, misled by misinformation and propagandized up the wazoo from all directions.

[ducktrapper]

If Dogs Run Free
WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN

If dogs run free, then why not we

Across the swooping plain?

My ears hear a symphony

Of two mules, trains and rain

The best is always yet to come

That's what they explain to me

Just do your thing, you'll be king

If dogs run free



If dogs run free, why not me

Across the swamp of time?

My mind weaves a symphony

And tapestry of rhyme

Oh, winds which rush my tale to thee

So it may flow and be

To each his own, it's all unknown

If dogs run free



If dogs run free, then what must be

Must be, and that is all

True love can make a blade of grass

Stand up straight and tall

In harmony with the cosmic sea

True love needs no company

It can cure the soul, it can make it whole

If dogs run free

[Silence Dogood]

Your responsibility is to tell the truth, not the facts, necessarily. It could be the facts, but it's basically the truth. That means being a truthful person.

You can't tell the truth in your work if you don't tell the truth in your life. So I encourage you to be scrupulous in your truth ethic.

Even when no one's looking - especially when no one's looking. Just for yourself.
-Rosanne Cash

"Where thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the Truth: for Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell."
William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude

"Tell the truth, or at least don't lie."
Jordan Peterson

"Live not by lies."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn