What quotes do you live by?

[IronWing]

"Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb."

 

[Stopsignhank]

If it works, don't fix it.

When angry count four, when really angry swear.

Please let me be the person my dog thinks I am.

 

[lxskllr]

Life is pain, get over it!

No stubs!

 

[BoomerD]

"Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb."

Stupidity is supposed to be painful.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

sin x = x
∫ u dv = -∫ v du
pi = e = 3
di/dt = ï

 

[Muse]

One I grabbed from a poster in these forums the other day:

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Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Edit: Yeah, it was here!

What quotes do you live by?

I'm not always super effective at it, but I legitimately really like Dwight Schrute's quote from The Office:

forums.anandtech.com

 

[sdifox]

One I grabbed from a poster in these forums the other day:

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Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Surely you have read HHGTTG?

 

[Muse]

Surely you have read HHGTTG?

No, I checked it out of the library but didn't get past a page or two (about a year ago, never saw it before that). However, I like that quotation.

 

[Muse]

Just my sig here is a treasure trove of wisdom... 😉

 

[IronWing]

I don't take no stock in dead people. - Huckleberry Finn

 

[sdifox]

No, I checked it out of the library but didn't get past a page or two (about a year ago, never saw it before that). However, I like that quotation.

I have read all the books multiple times. hell bought the collection multiple times, they keep not coming back

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I like this one from Japanese:

ちりも積もれば山となる。
chiri mo tsumoreba yama to naru
If you pile up dust it becomes a mountain.

Eg like a lot small steps can make something grand.

 

[balloonshark]

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” --Elbert Hubbard

Always do the right thing because it's the right thing to do.

"Anything worth doing, is worth doing right." -- Hunter S Thompson

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." -- Ozzy Osbourne (Cereal Killer from movie Hackers.)

 

[Scarpozzi]

"If I don't see you in the future, I'll see you in the pasture."

 

[Captante]

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"

(Traditional)

😉

 

[Muse]

"Anything worth doing, is worth doing right." -- Hunter S Thompson

The Hunter S. Thompson utterance I have never forgotten was at the very end of one of his most famous books, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail:

"Persistence and determination alone are invincible."

 

[nakedfrog]

I have read all the books multiple times. hell bought the collection multiple times, they keep not coming back

I still have individual copies, got the omnibus some time back because they're battered (and it had the Zaphod Plays It Safe story), and then a few years ago my daughter and her BF got me the "Ultimate" edition with the gilt pages.

 

[Paperdoc]

Democracy does not work becasue the majority rules. It works only when the minority agrees to be ruled.

 

[shortylickens]

hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is fun because its full of neat shit you will probably forget, so every time you go back its like "OHHHH, YEAHHH!!" 😀


(fun fact, allegedly the author HATES that cosmic cutie)

 

[Muse]

I don't take no stock in dead people. - Huckleberry Finn

As William Blake put it,

"Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead."

On the same theme, he said,

"The cut worm forgives the plow."

 

[herm0016]

"embrace the suck"

"be observant"

The root cause of most incidents and bad decisions is the act of not paying attention to the world around you.

 

[I'dluv2]

Keep your wife out of my yard

I'll keep my yard out of your wife.

 

[spacejamz]

It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it...

At least until you end up on an episode of Hoarders....

 

[Captante]

Keep your wife out of my yard

I'll keep my yard TWO INCHES out of your wife.

Fixed. 😉



*(sorry couldn't help myself... low-hanging fruit and all!)

 

[scorpmatt]

*(sorry couldn't help myself... low-hanging fruit and all!)

i see your fruit hangs lower than your stick then. lol