# Lines You Live By **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 26, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113 "2005-04-26T02:02:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/21 "2005-04-26T05:43:28Z")
I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/22 "2005-04-26T05:45:16Z")
Miss the morning, miss the day - Joseph Kennedy ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/23 "2005-04-26T06:05:13Z")
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/24 "2005-04-26T06:08:34Z")
> [@Atheist Princess](#): > > ps. I sit on the fence where abortion is concerned 🙂 Very commendable for an atheistic royalist. Reminds me of David Lloyd George’s remark about Sir John Simon: “He has sat on the fence so long, the iron has entered his soul.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/25 "2005-04-26T07:18:22Z")
_“Royalist”_…haven’t heard _that_ one in awhile. Anyway, for myself—jeez, so much to choose from. I guess I’ll go with “Semper Paratus.” ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/26 "2005-04-26T07:25:52Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > \*“Royalist”\*I guess I’ll go with “Semper Paratus.” Nice quote attributed to a bloke who’s name I can’t spell, but he’s the Ethiopian distance runner who once held about 15 world records (Heile Gebrsellasie, more or less): “The will to win is very important; but the will to prepare is everything”. Bore my wife & daughter with this one. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/27 "2005-04-26T07:44:53Z")
Words to live by: “Mr. Garibaldi. Whatever it is, it can’t be that bad.” - Londo from Babylon 5 ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/28 "2005-04-26T10:06:45Z")
“Hell is other people.” - Jean-Paul Sartre Only kidding! Really, it’s “There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.” -Mahatma Gandhi. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/29 "2005-04-26T10:33:21Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > In the interests of balance, feel free to come back with a nugget of pro-abortion propaganda of your own. No thanks. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. – Ecclesiastes 3:1 ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/30 "2005-04-26T10:48:19Z")
“What a long, strange trip it’s been.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/31 "2005-04-26T13:09:52Z")
“You’ll get by, you always have before”–_Evita_ by Tim Rice ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/32 "2005-04-26T13:18:56Z")
“Never eat more than you can lift.” --Miss Piggy ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/33 "2005-04-26T13:23:47Z")
Being kind isn’t expensive. - My mom. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/34 "2005-04-26T13:30:48Z")
“Today not possible. Tomorrow possible.” This phrase is the motto of the American Taekwondo Association. It was written by Grand Master H. U. Lee, the founder, when he was still trying to learn English. He translated the phrase with dictionary in hand and wrote it down for his student that he was trying to express it to. ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/35 "2005-04-26T13:42:29Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Very commendable for an atheistic royalist. Reminds me of David Lloyd George’s remark about Sir John Simon: “He has sat on the fence so long, the iron has entered his soul.” Here I was worrying about falling off :eek: ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/36 "2005-04-26T15:42:05Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#): > > “Everything in moderation. Including moderation.” - my great-grandmother, who firmly believed that a little excess was necessary from time to time, as long as one didn’t make a habit of it. Dang it, I thought I made this one up myself. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic. Bertrand Russell ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/37 "2005-04-26T16:08:09Z")
“Brevity is the soul of wit.” - Da Bard. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/38 "2005-04-26T16:14:14Z")
“I can only conclude that I’m paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate.” Babylon 5 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/39 "2005-04-26T16:15:11Z")
Another _Fight Club_ quote: “This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/40 "2005-04-26T16:19:26Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Line **s** You Live By > [@roger thornhill](#): > > Just one per person, please, so we can get a truly mixed bag. :dubious: “Treat people in the same exact manner you wish to be treated. You’ll find you get along with just about everyone…except masochists” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113.md?page=3)