It's increasingly occurred to me, as I get older and crustier, that I find myself saying things to people that I've said a number of times before.

Some of them are well known adages or observations, of course, but others are things that I wasn't previously aware of, or put together from several other pieces, and they've gradually become a sort of collection of my personal adages and laws and maxims.

A few months ago I idly wondered how many of those I actually had, so I started collecting them in a text file. I've come up with more than I expected, so I thought I'd post them in one go for your entertainment.