John's little known  proverbs lessons learned over a lifetime

	1.	Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
	2.	A smile is the world's best investment.  It costs you nothing and the return is priceless.
	3.	You'll never get ahead if you're just trying to get even.
	4.	Some people know all the answers but not necessarily the right answers.
	5.	The only thing for certain is that nothing is for certain.
	6.	None of us had any say in the creation of our lives.  We only have say in how we choose to live our lives.  Even then, chance and circumstance can over ride our best plans and intentions.
	7.	This may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it certainly is the only world possible.
	8.	Every time I keep my chin up I step into one of life's potholes.
	9.	Early to bed and Early to rise makes Early wise.  But I'm not Early.
	10.	The best things in life are free.  Everything else costs way too much.
	11.	The shortest distance between two lips is a treasured pleasure.
	12.	The value of a thing is never as much as what a person owes on it.
	13.	The more older I get, the less I knowledge I know - more or less.
	14.	A wise man and his money are parted, too.  It just takes longer.
	15.	Fun is the essential elixir for long life.
	16.	A man's life depends on the desserts and deserts his woman gives him.
	17.	Love and laughter flow from the heart.
	18.	An ounce of love is worth more than a ton of hate.
	19.	Even in the 'Land of Milk and Honey' there is bound to be some snow blindness and diabetes.
	20.	The problem with most of life's itches is that the more you scratch them, the more you want to scratch them.
	21.	Every time I sharpen my pencil, I do my best to make a point.
	22.	The degree of difficulty of doing a task increases by the power of the number of people involved.  The degree difficulty of doing a task for one person is 1.  The degree of difficulty of doing the same task for two people is 4.  The degree of difficulty of doing the same task for three people is 9.  The degree of difficulty of doing the same task for five people is 25.  And the degree of difficulty of doing the same task for ten people is 100.  The lesson here is, keep your teams small.
	23.	Just as soon as I get comfortable doing things a certain way, life changes the rules and I have to adjust to doing things another way - not necessarily a better way - just different.
	24.	The best teams have no super stars.
	25.	Let the hunger for God in your heart be as strong as the hunger for food in your stomach.
	26.	One man's verse is another man's vice or vice versa.
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