pithy definitions to live by..

[janzman]

...
Secrets: What we tell everybody to tell nobody.
Contentment: The smother of invention.
Diplomacy: The art of letting someone else have your way.
Gossip: Hearing something you like about someone you don't.
Alcoholic: Someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Censor: A person who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
and
Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper,our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

[Zacs-Master]

Many a true word spoken (or written) in jest.

[sherrardk]

Love the gossip one.

[Graham-W]

What’s important today won’t matter tomorrow.
Nobody thinks about you as much as you think about you.
It’s OK to Fosters people off.
Nobody tells all the truth, all the time.(When we’re young and say we had six beers, we probably only had three. Nowadays, if we say we only had three beers, you can be sure it was closer to six.)
You’re wrong as often as you’re right, so don’t dwell on either.
Men should never wear wigs.

[Graham-W]

^^ for Fosters read pith.