# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/41 "2005-04-26T16:19:27Z")
The whole of humanity is…one human family. This planet is our only home. -His Holiness the Dalai Lama To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. -Albus Dumbledore ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/42 "2005-04-26T16:22:30Z")
“She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.” - Proverbs 31:25 . It’s how I try to live my life. Susan ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/43 "2005-04-26T16:23:02Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > In the interests of balance… No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. -Margaret Sanger ---
**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, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/44 "2005-04-26T16:24:24Z")
> [@MixieArmadillo](#): > > No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. > -Margaret Sanger You live by this quote? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/45 "2005-04-26T16:28:30Z")
And aside from the pot-stirring… “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dream’t of in your philosophy.” –Hamlet (I, v, 166-167) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/46 "2005-04-26T16:30:46Z")
“I’ll try anything once.” - Bugs Bunny ---
**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/47 "2005-04-26T16:32:17Z")
“Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity” -Hanlon ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/48 "2005-04-26T16:33:11Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > You live by this quote? > > 😕 I spend all my working hours working towards that end, both in the sense of ensuring safe access, counselling women on _all_ their options (not just abortion), and helping to prevent unwanted pregnancies from happening in the first place, so that abortions should happen as infrequently as is humanly possible. So, yes, you could say I do 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/49 "2005-04-26T16:39:18Z")
I live by a couple of short sweet lines: Blaze your trail. - No idea where I picked this up… Play chicken with the future. - Paul Graham (this quote is taken wholly out of context. but it’s still an awesome quote) and “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou ---
**Author:** ![suporama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@suporama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suporama)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/50 "2005-04-26T16:40:29Z")
Galatians 6:9 "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. " ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/51 "2005-04-26T16:51:07Z")
“Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy”. - Aristotle “It’s a good excuse, but it is still an excuse”. - Kyosah Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![My\_Dog\_Klaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@My\_Dog\_Klaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Dog_Klaus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/52 "2005-04-26T17:11:16Z")
“My life is perfect because I accept it like it is” - Lenny Kravitz ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/53 "2005-04-26T17:47:09Z")
“To give is better than to lend, and it costs about the same.” --my dad. The quote about moderation in everything, including moderation, is, I believe, from {b]Lost Horizon\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/54 "2005-04-26T18:53:29Z")
“The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.” ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/55 "2005-04-26T18:59:01Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > “I’ll try anything once.” - Bugs Bunny “…twice if I like it, three times to make sure.” I don’t remember who said it, but my friend Georgie often quotes it. ---
**Author:** ![WortMeWorry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/56 "2005-04-26T19:06:20Z")
Never try to bulls–t, an old bulls–tter. - My Dad. ---
**Author:** ![Dancer\_Flight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dancer_flight/32/7601_2.png) [@Dancer\_Flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancer_Flight)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/57 "2005-04-26T19:44:28Z")
“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 poblem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” -Robert. A. Heinlein (The Notebooks of Lazarus Long) -DF ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/58 "2005-04-26T20:55:32Z")
“Admit nothing, deny nothing.” – David Mamet Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/59 "2005-04-26T21:05:00Z")
_A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth_. I like that short poem by Robert Frost; it picks me up a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/60 "2005-04-26T21:31:08Z")
“Never turn down a job you haven’t been offered.” - my best friend Actually, this serves me well in all kinds of arenas, not just work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113.md?page=4)