What’s the most sensible thing you’ve ever heard someone say?

“Don’t be a dick.”

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard,
Good one. xD

Fact from fiction, tru

“You can attract more flies with honey than you can with vinegar”...or however that expression goes.

“The definition of ‘insanity’ is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result.”

Everything in moderation.

Make sure there’s water in the pool, before you dive in. Or look before you leap. They both mean the same thing.

In other words, don’t make rash decisions and weigh all the facts before you act

My GP once said to me “you know you’ve been a fucking prick, you need to stop beating yourself up about it”. He was right, and it needed saying.

@meiosis Your doctor told you that?

Can’t imagine how I’d remember all the sensible things I’ve ever heard and then rank them for degree of sensibility and pick out the one with the highest rating. But a sensible thing would have to be this: “Chop wood, carry water.”

@FutureMemory Yes, I’d done something really, really awful and stupid and out of character and was experiencing a psychological crash as I tried to come to terms with being the sort of person I didn’t think I was. My GP, who I knew reasonably well, was very good and he chose his words carefully…

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead…...well, it’s actually graphite (an allotrope of carbon) but that doesn’t work nearly as well.

I love it when I have an answer to my own question. :)
“If we all watched a writer who loved the writen words we’d all understand the meaning of true love.”

We have the most sensible of community leaders here, in @augustlan. In response to Josie’s question about his question disappearing, she wrote:

After some PMing back and forth, it appears we did accidentally remove the question without notifying @josie. I humbly apologize for the error. I’ve offered to either send it back to him for editing or he can ask it again as a new question.

Sensible. Smart. Nice.

Two in my case: (1) Virginity can be cured and (2) The supreme irony of life is that
no one gets out alive…

(self explanatory)

Go through life with good sense and sensibility.

Those are sensible shoes you are wearing.

@Cruiser,
I’m wearing rubber boots in 75 degree weather. ;)
... At 3 in the morning…
Inside… :D

“Learn how to type and you will always have a job.”

My grandfather gave me this advice when I was in second grade (well before the onset of computers). He gave me a typewriter and taught me how to type then. He was right and my skills on the typewriter meant I was even faster on a computer keyboard. Even in this day and age, I can type much, much faster than most of my colleagues. Knowing how to type allowed me to finish my master’s thesis. My first job out of college was as a typist and the organization promoted me to two more positions of progressive responsibility. I got to type on the first desktop computers in the early 1980s and was then able to transfer that to early desktop publishing. Now I write grants, papers and other documents and I have been doing it for so long that I am rarely intimidated by the size of the project and can just dig in and “get er done.”

Strive for balance, grasshopper!

Don’t sweat the small stuff. Really.

@AshLeigh Those are NOT sensible shoes unless you are pressure washing the basement floor at 3 in the morning!! ;)

“Don’t have a kid until you’re at least 25.” Although this was a long time ago, so I’d change it to 35.

“Find a partner you can talk to, because we all sag eventually.” – high school biotech teacher. It worked, though we’re not exactly at sagging stage anyway.

@incendiary_dan The best of both worlds.

The more civilization progresses, the less civilized we become.

Get a bike

If the new shoes pinch when you leave the store, don’t expect them to stretch…ever.

Mary Oliver wrote in the last line of The Summer Day,

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

Vote for Obama.
Don’t sing while eating.
Get a job, any job!
Don’t dawdle.
Stick your tongue out.
Get a foot spray.
Get lost.
Get off Fluther!

Mine is “Stop worrying about stuff you can do nothing about”!

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

You have to know the rules to break them.

You can’t change other people to suit your own needs.

Haha.
“Don’t let life get you down. Instead punch it in the fucking face, and make it your bitch.”

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Excellent.

When I was a teen I sorta had anger problems, and I had this habit of throwing things and breaking them. Once my dad got all fed up and he’s like, breaking shit isn’t going to help you fix shit. It was pretty epic lol.

@Symbeline Your dad is a wise man. It reminds me of this saying:

“If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad…

Snow is like the city: It’s only fun if you don’t live in it.