I have 3 but would LOVE to hear more…

You can always have more but you can’t have less

This one’s from my dad and it really stuck with me. You can, and really should, apply this to any intoxicant.

On the pitch is off the streets

This is about getting restless kids, or kids who might be in a bad situation, into sports.

The axe forgets but the tree remembers

Translation on this one: People who cause hurt are less likely to remember than those it affected.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 hour ago

    A few from the file I keep:

    In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. - Jan van de Snepscheut

    I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned. - Richard Feynman

    Give a man a mask and he’ll show you his true face. - Oscar Wilde (paraphrased)

    You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. - C.S. Lewis

    Magic is science you can’t explain. Science is magic you can. - My Daughter

    You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago. - Alan Watts

    What you do to achieve your goals must never become more important than the goals themselves. - Anonymous

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
    1·
    43 minutes ago

    I think it’s a good phrase? My mom said it a lot when I was young, but as I’ve grown it’s started to sound like passive aggressive negging?

    You should always have friends smarter than you.

    Which I always tried to do, but in practice I was seeking out to be tge dumbest person in any given room. I got severe anxiety as an adult.

    Open to thoughts on this.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it

    Better safe than sorry

    Waste not, want not

    Don’t put it down, put it away

    Your brain is only as long as your pencil

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    2 hours ago

    I can tell you one that is super applicable to the current era:

    Garbage in, garbage out.

    It’s a 1980s programmer’s adage in response to the belief by business owners that computers could solve their problems without data, or with limited data, or with inaccurate data.

    Cut to the era of LLMs in which we’re asking glorified autocomplete to answer deep, philosophical or religious questions, or complicated political questions or complex logical dilemmas, when they were trained on Reddit and 4Chan.

    There’s a 1970s corollary;

    The computer is always right.

    This is from the tendency of clerks and bureaucrats to, when confronted with conflicts between reality and the data fields in a computer database, favor what the magic box says.

    Again, we’re seeing magical box thinking in the present day.

  • reksas@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    3 hours ago

    moment of bliss can ruin your life. it sounds much better in original language but idea translates well.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 hours ago

    *If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging"

    If you find yourself in a bad place, don’t make it worse.