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WHAT IS A PHILOSOPHER? A person who walks about a university thinking hard, staring at the ground? Wearing tweed jacket with leather patches on the elbows? Stuttering out great pondering words of wisdom? No - this a philosopher does not make! But what does? We are all philosophers in our own way, we all have experience in the world, and that hard won experience has shaped our thoughts into a certain way of thinking, and there we have the key, a way of thinking. That's what a philosopher is - a person who shapes their own thinking, and we have choices in doing the shaping, it can be done deliberately of we can leave it to chance. So, you think that you aren’t a philosopher already? Here are some 'potted' philosophies that are in everyday use, and although they are regarded as being a bit jokey, they are very true and hold a lot of wisdom - after all what is philosophy but wisdom? So, you think that you aren’t a philosopher already? That can only be true if you have never used any of the following ... ... to be taken as a metaphor or literally! 1. Belt and braces 2. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. 3. If it isn’t broken don’t mend it. 4. A stitch in time. 5. Live and let live. 6. What goes round comes round. 7. Many a slip twixt cup and lip. 8. Fine feathers make fine birds. 9. The clothes make not the man. 10. Make hay while the sun shines. 11. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. 12. Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. 13. Don’t judge a book by its cover. 14. Silence in golden. 15. Beware of what you pray for. 16. Many a good tune played on an old fiddle. 17. A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. 18. Keep friends close, but enemies closer. 19. Leopards never change their spots. 20. Let sleeping dogs lay. 21. Tell the truth and shame the devil. 22. The lord helps him who helps himself. 23. Easy Come Easy Go. 24. Great oaks from little acorns grow. 25. Little piglets have big ears. 26. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 27. Many a true word is spoken in jest. End.
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