Scrabble Proverbs

A recent post on Tommyjournal linked to a wonderful collection of Go proverbs. Here are my top 10 from that list:

•	There are possible things, impossible things, and things that happen. Sometimes things happen that were impossible.
•	The axe’s handle rots while the mind lives to the rhythm of the stones.
•	5 lines for extension in front of shimari.
•	It is difficult to know exactly what you are doing.
•	Proverbs do not apply to White.
•	Strange things happen at the one-two points.
•	Never try to cut bamboo joints.
•	In the corner, five stones in a row on the third line are alive.
•	If you have one stone on the third line, add another, then abandon both of them.
•	You can hide nothing on the goban.

I have never played Go, but of late I have been playing a lot of Scrabble, and between moves I came up with some Scrabble proverbs.

•	There are words, and there are spaces between words.
•	Seven tiles sit side by side, meditating on possibilities.
•	Be wary at family games, but remember that your reputation is not worth more than 50 points.
•	If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. Then flip the board over (as if by mistake).
•	There is only one g in crzjgrdwldiwdc. (Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
•	Aspire for the seven-letter word, but make friends with the TWL98 two-letter word list. Played rightly, UT (syllable used in the fixed system of solmization for the note C) can be worth more than QUIXOTIC.
•	Ecstasy is a seven-letter word.
•	Here the word, there the meaning. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations)
•	In the bag, all letters are worth nothing and everything.
•	Let no one see your rack.

If you can come up with any others, please leave a comment. Just to get you thinking, here is the board from last night’s Scrabble game.

And before anyone objects to SEXT (L-13), I hasten to clarify that it means the fourth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office, or the prayers prescribed for it.