{"id":2471,"date":"2016-11-09T07:21:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T12:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2016-11-07T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T12:02:07","slug":"modern-day-maxims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2471","title":{"rendered":"Modern-Day Maxims (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

They certainly do not have the \u201cweightiness\u201d of those traditional aphorisms from ancient Greece and the Enlightenment Period, but there still is an element of truth twisted into modern-day maxims. However, here is an entertaining list of modern principles and maxims.
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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime. \/ The road to success is always under construction. \/ A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out. \/ Failure is the path of least persistence. \/ Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough. \/ Patience is counting down without blasting off. \/ Have a backbone not a wishbone. \/ Life is not no much a matter of position as of disposition. \/ If you don’t care where you’re going any road will get you there. \/ A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice. \/ He who throws mud loses ground. \/ Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others. \/ Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it. \/ A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. \/ Ideas won’t work unless you do. \/ The future is purchased by the present. \/ One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time. \/ Lost time is never found again. \/ A hard thing about business is minding your own. \/ Triumph is just “umph” added to try. \/ Caution is not cowardly, carelessness is not courage. \/ He who forgives ends the quarrel. \/ Children need more models than critics. \/ Frogs have it easy – they can eat what bugs them. \/ If the going gets easy you may be going downhill. \/ Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. \/ The best vitamin for making friends, B-1. \/ Jumping to conclusions can be bad exercise. \/ The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow. \/ Some folks won’t look up until they are flat on their backs. \/ If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep. \/ Birds have bills too and they keep on singing. \/ A good example is the best sermon. \/ The Ten Commandments are not multiple choice. \/ Well done! is better than, Well said! \/ Minds are like parachutes – they function only when open. \/ Live as you wish your kids would. \/ Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion. \/ People don’t fail, they give up. \/ When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope. \/ Smile, it takes only 13 muscles – a frown takes 64. \/ Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind can see. \/ Heaviest thing to carry – a grudge. \/ We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. \/ Tact is the ability to see others as they wish to be seen. \/ A bad conscience has a very good memory. \/ One thing you can give and still keep – is your word. \/ A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor. \/ A small leak can sink a great ship. \/ You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.<\/p>\n

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They certainly do not have the \u201cweightiness\u201d of those traditional aphorisms from ancient Greece and the Enlightenment Period, but there still is an element of truth twisted into modern-day maxims. However, here is an entertaining list of modern principles and maxims. The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime. \/ The road to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,38,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8721,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/8721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}