Sic friat crustulum
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Sic friat crustulum (2007)
Wisdom from fortune cookies
Phillip Magnuson

Tenor and piano


To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
Ideas are like children: there are none so wonderful as your own.
It's nice to be remembered, but it's far cheaper to be forgotten.
Do not expect romantic attachments to be strictly logical or rational.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Without fools there would be no wisdom.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
An inch of time is an inch of gold.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
Every excess becomes a vice, but what's vice today may be virtue tomorrow.
Confidence is the hinge on the door to success.
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.
He who expects no gratitude shall never be disappointed.

Tell it like it is, but be careful how you tell it...and to whom.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Always a beautiful answer to he who asks a more beautiful question.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
You are an angel. Beware of those who collect feathers.

When in doubt, mumble.
The secret of staying young is good health and lying about your age.
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
Blessed are the children, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Just because you put tap shoes on an elephant does not mean it can dance.