# Do you have a motto? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 14, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536 "2005-03-14T22:51:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![bclouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@bclouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bclouse)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/81 "2005-03-16T05:51:18Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > “Tomorrow is another day” and “You never know until you try.” Two wonderful mottos and a couple of great Bond films to boot. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/82 "2005-03-16T05:56:10Z")
Life is **way** too short. _insert cliche of your choosing here_ ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/83 "2005-03-16T05:56:58Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > “Tomorrow is another day” and “You never know until you try.” > [@bclouse](#): > > Two wonderful mottos and a couple of great Bond films to boot. 😃 Occasionally amended to “Same sh\*t, different day” and “I tried and it still didn’t work!” ---
**Author:** ![bclouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@bclouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bclouse)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/84 "2005-03-16T06:03:32Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Occasionally amended to “Same sh\*t, different day” and “I tried and it still didn’t work!” Remarkably, can still be applied to the current Bond films. ---
**Author:** ![Thinktank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/85 "2005-03-16T06:14:43Z")
Very nice ones Dudley and Moving Finger, but a new rule should go in effect that any future Latin language fanatics need to translate what they are writing, otherwise what good is it to read? I humbly submit: If not for Love, then what? … I’ve got no idea where I stole that from, but if I did indeed make it up, I’m claiming it as such 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/86 "2005-03-16T06:20:44Z")
> [@bclouse](#): > > Remarkably, can still be applied to the current Bond films. True, true. Mottoes for the ages, I have. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/87 "2005-03-16T06:24:53Z")
**Q - tip** - quit taking it personally. Being a teacher and a nurse, I get a lot of angry people trying to blame me for stuff. So I Q-tip it whenever I can. “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” - (miss you, Warren) ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/88 "2005-03-16T07:37:59Z")
“Trust but verify.” - Ronald Reagan “Better than a kick in the crotch.” - Me “Resistence is futile!” - Some Vogon “Get out of the road if you wanna grow old.” - Roger Waters ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/89 "2005-03-16T08:06:35Z")
Mine is all-purpose, I can’t think of a single situation it won’t fit: “Don’t fuck up” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/90 "2005-03-16T08:44:28Z")
Can’t remember where I read this but I’ve always liked _Actions speak louder than accents_ Then there’s a passage in _To Kill A MockingBird_ where Atticus explains to the children why he is taking the action he is, too long to be a motto it boils down to Shakepeare’s _To thine own self be true_ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/91 "2005-03-16T09:02:52Z")
> [@Cheez\_Whia](#): > > Illegitimus non carborundum. I like it better in Latin. If I got it wrong, I’m sure **The Sausage Creature** will correct me. I think that’s fake Latin. ---
**Author:** ![NillyWilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@NillyWilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NillyWilly)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/92 "2005-03-16T13:20:35Z")
Some is good. More is better. Too much is just enough. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/93 "2005-03-16T13:22:15Z")
> [@Duderdude2](#): > > Mine is all-purpose, I can’t think of a single situation it won’t fit: > > “Don’t fuck up” That’s the Shepard Prayer. The **Alan** Shepard Prayer. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/94 "2005-03-16T13:35:05Z")
My high school anthro teacher once told us “When you stop learning new things, you’re as good as dead.” I think that was a little harsh, but it’s still something I think of when I face a particularly difficult challenge. I figured out a more specific motto this morning. I had an epiphany when I got up to run at 4:40 a.m. I started to wonder what the hell I was doing getting up that early only to go run (I used to get up at 4 a.m. on Saturdays to run, but that was four or five years ago). Anyway, that motto is: “Don’t bother to ask why you’re doing this because if you wonder why, you’ll figure out a reason not to do it.” For me, it really only applies to running early in the morning, but not taking the time to wonder what the hell I was doing leaving the house at 4:45 sure helped me get my workout done. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536/95 "2005-03-16T14:03:25Z")
“Dig deep. Use quicklime.” Words to live by. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-motto/294536.md?page=4)