# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/121 "2005-04-29T00:32:01Z")
> [@TimeWinder](#): > > … does not affect it’s truth …" And I still don’t know who, Google doesn’t match the exact quote. :smack: …Even when I use the correct punctuation of “its”. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/122 "2005-04-29T01:09:59Z")
> [@tygerbryght](#): > > > [@Morgyn](#): > > > > When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and > > clothes. - Erasmu > > It’s the default sig in my email program, and I’m afraid it’s all too true. The #1 alternate I use is: > > “Too many books? There is no such thing as too many books, but too few bookshelves can be a problem.” > Mary Loomer Oliver > > I also sometimes use: > > “I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” > Anna Quindlen Heh. Reminds of a button you can get that says: I don’t need speed reading. I need speed bookcase building. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/123 "2005-04-29T05:04:14Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Ladies and gentlemen, I present my sig > > * * * > > Remember this motto to live by: Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather one should aim to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, your body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO man, what a ride!” I love it and can totally relate to it. 😃 ---
**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 29, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/124 "2005-04-29T05:16:34Z")
> [@Mint Julep](#): > > “Every rose has it’s thorn…” > -Poison Not only a good line to live by but a damn fine song also… ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/125 "2005-04-29T10:23:53Z")
Better to rule in hell, than serve in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/126 "2005-04-29T10:40:54Z")
And I’d hardly be living by that line if I stuck to the ‘one quote per person’ rule. _Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts._ Churchill. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/127 "2005-04-29T18:57:09Z")
“Don’t give me songs; give me something to sing about.” –Buffy Summers ---
**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 29, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/128 "2005-04-29T19:35:40Z")
_Oh, we make a boast of storing, Of saving and of keeping, But only by ignoring The waste of moments sleep, The waste of pleasure weeping, By denying and ignoring The waste of nations warring._ OK, so I enjoy the R. Frost. Life is too complicated to sum up in one quote. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/129 "2005-05-09T09:05:06Z")
> [@Sevastopol](#): > > Better to rule in hell, than serve in heaven. You really believe this?! On ruling, one from Karl Popper: ‘Classes never rule, any more than nations. The rulers are always certain persons. And whatever class they may have belonged to, when they are rulers they belong to the ruling class.’ (Conjectures and Refutations, 344) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/130 "2005-05-09T09:54:59Z")
“I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” Stephen Grellet (attributed) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/131 "2005-05-09T11:09:13Z")
“You might as well be a mench.” ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/132 "2005-05-09T14:01:39Z")
_desine fata deum flecti sperare precando_ Stop hoping you will change the will of the gods by praying. Virgil, from the Aeneid Seneca wrote a longer version in the Epistulae Morales, but unfortunately it’s slightly longer than one line. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113/133 "2005-05-09T14:58:49Z")
_Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend._ -Bruce Lee [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-you-live-by/301113.md?page=6)