# How would you sum up your life philosophy on a t-shirt? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 27, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931 "2007-02-27T20:57:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/21 "2007-02-28T00:27:00Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] **Sunspace** , I prefer my med school professor’s version: “You can see a whole lot just by looking.”\*\* [/QUOTE] Ah, but yours isn’t a line from the lyrics of an Esperanto-language rock band seen live in Helsinki, is it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/22 "2007-02-28T00:29:43Z")
“L’enfer, c’est les autres” - Jean-Paul Sartre ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/23 "2007-02-28T00:35:02Z")
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta. Disclaimer: I am so not gangsta. ---
**Author:** ![Jaochai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2acd7d/32.png) [@Jaochai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaochai)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/24 "2007-02-28T00:35:32Z")
VIVO all in capital letters. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/25 "2007-02-28T01:27:01Z")
[Here.](http://www.cafepress.com/buy/unpossible/-/pv_design_prod/p_storeid.5197408/pNo_5197408/id_2122303/opt_/pg_/c_/fpt_) ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/26 "2007-02-28T01:38:47Z")
What is, is. ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/27 "2007-02-28T02:02:50Z")
It Just Doesn’t Matter I’ve already got it on a button, I guess I could have it made into a t-shirt. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/28 "2007-02-28T02:19:04Z")
Courtesy of bonJovi: “Live while you’re alive.” ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/29 "2007-02-28T02:20:19Z")
Front: Shit happened. Back: Now looking for good times. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/30 "2007-02-28T02:26:02Z")
I’d like to have a shirt with my favorite line from Kurt Vonnegut: **I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.** ---
**Author:** ![Adoptamom\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/31 "2007-02-28T02:35:57Z")
Mine would say: “They said I marched to a different drummer. The were wrong. It was bagpipes and I was dancing!” ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/32 "2007-02-28T02:54:54Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Courtesy of bonJovi: “Live while you’re alive.” [/QUOTE] I think it would be much cooler to use the RAH version of that: “Dum Vivimus, Vivimus!” The literal translation I recall is “While we live, let us live!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/33 "2007-02-28T02:55:37Z")
**Sort Them All Out and Let God Kill Them** ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/34 "2007-02-28T03:04:34Z")
[So simple, yet so true.](http://www.onehorseshy.com/lowbrow/beer_good/) ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/35 "2007-02-28T03:09:45Z")
[QUOTE=Omniscient] [So simple, yet so true.](http://www.onehorseshy.com/lowbrow/beer_good/) [/QUOTE] I thought it was “[Beer Bad](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Bad_(Buffy_episode))”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/36 "2007-02-28T03:47:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Front: Shit happened. > > Back: Now looking for good times. **Mouse\_Maven** That is so me too! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/37 "2007-02-28T03:53:55Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] **Mouse\_Maven** That is so me too! [/QUOTE] And me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/38 "2007-02-28T03:58:19Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] I’d like to have a shirt with my favorite line from Kurt Vonnegut: **I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.** [/QUOTE] In a similar vein, one of my high school yearbook quotes was a reference to Vonnegut’s Bokononism: _Live by the foma (harmless untruths) that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy._ I still basically believe this. As for a T-shirt, I’d like to have the following short checklist, which I once added (while nobody was around) to the end of a list of project milestones on a whiteboard in a random conference room in an office building I was visiting: - Part hair behind - Eat a peach - Shoot mermaids (which is a reference to my favorite poem, T.S. Eliot’s [The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock](http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html).) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/39 "2007-02-28T04:05:44Z")
I only wear shirts with no words, no symbols and no images. Which actually works out well for this thread since it’s basically saying “I have nothing to say to you” and that is me. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931/40 "2007-02-28T04:17:53Z")
My personal philosophy would be: Live each day as though it’s your last, because one day, you’ll be right. I also like my friend Hyena’s, which he adapted from a variant of Occam’s Razor: When two things are equally unbelievable, I choose to believe in whichever one is more fun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-sum-up-your-life-philosophy-on-a-t-shirt/393931.md?page=3)