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A Man Should Be Careful Never To Tell Tales Of Himself To His Own Disadvantage
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A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage;
people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered, and
brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion.
-- Johnson
Related:
The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself
he rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his....
GRATEFUL DEAD The motif of a cycle of folk tales which begin with the hero's coming upon a group of people ill-treating or refusing to bury the corpse of a man who had died without paying his debts.
He gives his last penny either to pay the man's debts or to give him a decent burial....
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask and he will tell the truth. Oscar Wilde...
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. --Shirley Maclaine
I Think I May Have Eaten There Myself Department: A man left a restaurant with a sandwich for which he had not paid, at high noon.
He was quickly apprehended by the police and had the evidence in hand at the time....
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a teacher. -- Ben Johnso...
Christendom is that part of the world where, if a man declare himself to be a Christian, his hearers laugh at him.
-- H. L. Mencke...
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- A Vindication of Natural Society...