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#40110 08/30/01 11:37 AM
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"It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right" quoth tsuwm in Mark Twain’s words.

So a small challenge if anyone cares to try:

Make up a maxim which has no obvious meaning yet preferably sounds like it should have one, hovering just out of our grasp!


#40111 08/30/01 01:15 PM
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My maxim? - Strive never to create any formula or rules by which to live.


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Dear belligerentyouth: Your maxim is just too good. It makes excellent sense to me.

Only the unexamined life is worth living.


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Only the unexamined life is worth living.

Good, Dr. Bill.

There is more to be found in a cloud than in all the works of man.


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Dear Faldage: You speak more like a poet than a philosopher. I hate philosophers.


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yep, I like all of these. I shall endeavour to live a better life by their example.

My offering in return is:

It's a legless dog that leaves no tracks.


#40116 08/30/01 03:42 PM
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...a legless dog...

Now that one is *really good. It comes across as being hopelessly trite on first view but then you get a sneaking feeling that it really *does mean something profound.


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Beware of chickens in the woods.


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#40119 08/30/01 05:06 PM
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Despite my best efforts, this may actually mean something, but here goes:

A good friend makes a bad enemy


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