Quotes to live by

[British Red]

So, what is your quote to live by?

Mine I think is Heinlein's

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

 

[Imagedude]

Sometimes I just sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

 

[ammo]

Ghandi was once asked. " what do you think of western education " He replied.
" I think it would be good idea "

 

[santaman2000]

It's better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.

Apache proverb

 

[Kerne]

An observation from Thoreau has always made me want to sing my song (metaphorically speaking, of course...):

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them"

 

[Niels]

Whilst planning 'Long way down', Ewan Mcgregor said something in the sense of: ''If were sure we would come back alive from this journey there would be no point in doing it.''
It always stuck by me.

 

[John Fenna]

I am what I am - and that's all that I am."
Popeye the Sailor Man
Do not try to be what you are not!
Do not pretend to be what you are not!
Enjoy what you are!

 

[Norton]

Carl Pilkington "if you're worrying about wrinkles on your b******s then your life is pretty good." He was talking to an American with a plastic surgery obsession at the time.

 

[Nemesis]

Opened thread with glee, planning to submit mine to find that British Red had started with it! Love Heinleins quote.

my other (attributed to a number of different people) 'We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing'

 

[wingstoo]

Do unto others as they would do unto you, but do it first and do it hard and fast...

 

[Man of Tanith]

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Or

When in doubt brew up.


Those two are my life mottos

 

[Wayland]

My Dad said "Find a job that you love and you'll never do a days work in your life."

I now know he wasn't the first to say it but that's how I remember it.

 

[Toddy]

It needs done; do it.


Mary.....and there's always the sig line

 

[Bowlander]

You can take a horse to water, but if it doesn't drink you can make it wish it had.

And

Eat less, move more.

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[Clouston98]

"If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you!"

On a more serious note "if a jobs worth doing its worth doing well" can't say I always do but I try !

 

[redneck]

If we're not supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?

 

[Andy BB]

Plenty of time to grow up when you die....

 

[Dave-the-rave]

A beer in the hand is worth two behind the bar.

 

[Toddy]

Plenty of time to grow up when you die....

My brother

"Ye're a lang time deid!"

M

 

[JAG009]

Just get on with it .