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