Daria's Page of Wisdom

permanently reWised

However, sometimes there is sense in learning from others' experience. In this case, when you make your next mistake you can well say:

"I'm just like Plato!" (Einstein, Michael Jackson, Jesus Christ, your neighbour, whoever). Isn't this worth an effort of reading?

Go on!!!

All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum

• Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people.
• Put things back where you found them. Take a nap every afternoon.
• Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
• Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
• Wash your hands before you eat. Flush.
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
• Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day.
• When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
• Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
• And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

All I need to know about life I learned from my CAT

• Life is hard, then you nap.
• Curiosity never killed anything except maybe a few hours.
• When in doubt, cop an attitude.
• Variety is the spice of life: one day ignore people, the next day annoy them.
• Climb your way to the top - that's why the drapes are there.
• Never sleep alone when you can sleep on someone's face.
• Find your place in the sun - especially if it happens to be on that nice pile of warm, clean laundry.
• Make your mark in the world - or at least spray in each corner.
• When eating out, think nothing of sending back your meal 20 or 30 times.
• If you're not receiving enough attention, try knocking over several expensive antique lamps.
• Always give generously - a small bird or rodent left on the bed tells them: "I care".
• When you go out into the world, remember: being placed on a pedestal is a right, not a privilege.

Murphy's Law, and other Laws of Nature:

• If something can go wrong, then it will go wrong.
• Nothing is as easy as it looks.
• If you start to do something, you always find that there is something else which has to be done first.
• If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.
• Most things get worse all the time.
• Anything that begins well ends badly. Anything that begins badly ends worse.
• If it looks easy, it's difficult. If it looks difficult, it's impossible.
• As soon as you talk about something: if it's good, it goes away; if it's bad, it happens.
• Everywhere is uphill on a bicycle.
• Cars prefer to break down on Sundays.
• Officials make work for each other.
• Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
• Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
• Everything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
• You can always find what you're not looking for.
• However many socks you have, three of them are always the same color.
• When something breaks down, there are always two things wrong. You will only find one of them.
• The lift is always on another floor.
• Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.
• Having baths makes telephones ring.

• Parkinson's First Law: The work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Truisms

• Better die standing than live kneeling.
• The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
• The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
• To know everything is to know nothing.
• We soon believe what we desire.
• Take us as you find us.
• Don't trouble trouble before trouble troubles you. Or counterwise:
• Fuck him before he fucks you. - Sorry for the language :)

McLuhanisms by Marshall McLuhan

• The story of modern America begins with the discovery of the white man by the indians.
• Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
• Whereas convictions depend on speed-ups, justice requires delay.
• The nature of people demands that most of them be engaged in the most frivolous possible activities - like making money.
• With telephone and TV it is not so much the message as the sender that is being sent.
• Money is the poor man's credit card.
• We look at the present through a rearview mirror. We march backwards into the future.
• Invention is the mother of necessities.
• You mean my whole fallacy's wrong.
• Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth.
• The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
• The trouble with cheap, specialized education is that you never stop paying for it.
• People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath.
• The road is our major architectural form.
• Today the business of business is becoming the constant invention of new business.
• News, far more than art, is artifact.
• When you are on the phone or on the air, you have no body.
• Tomorrow is our permanent address.
• All advertising advertises advertising.
• The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.
• This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself.
• The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy.
• One of the nicest things about being big is the luxury of thinking little.
• Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.
• The missing link created far more interest than all the chains and explanations of being.
• When a thing is current, it creates a currency.
• Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.
• Men on frontiers whether of time or space, abandon their previous identities. Neighborhood gives identity. Frontiers snatch it away.
• The future of the book is the blurb.
• The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.
• A road is a flattened-out wheel, rolled up in the belly of an aeroplane.
• I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.