Duke of Windsor’s Rules
Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to rest your feet.
Source: Jon Winokur, Friendly Advice 1990
The Duke helped popularise the rules but did not devise them. Characterising them as “perhaps . . . the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given”, he said that he had learned these rules from “an old courtier.”
The first of the rules recalls the reply that the Duke of Wellington is said to have made when asked if he could supply some motto that had served him in all his campaigns. “Certainly sir” said the Duke drawing on a British euphemism of nautical origin “never lose an opportunity to pump ship.”
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