“Everything works, if you let it.” - Corpus C. Redfish (Art Carney) in Roadie.
“I like to think people are stupid, not mean”
–No idea
This has always kept me from thinking the worst about people.
Follow your bliss — Joseph Campbell
The grass isn’t greener on the other side of the fence; that’s just the way the light hits it. — [INDENT]*Me (Can’t remember where I may have first heard it.)[/*INDENT]
“Wherever you go, there you are.” - Unknown (at least by me)
and my sig below
I always attribute that one to Buckaroo Banzai, but somebody else could have said it first. 
I’ve always seen it listed as a single quote, but unfortunately I don’t know the context or any other information about it, so I can’t guarantee anything. It is true that almost all of his other more popular quotes seem to be limited to 10 words or less.
Cool. Spouting off a quote that starts with “Well, you know what Buckaroo Banzai used to say…” will definitely get me some serious street cred.
Two:
Spend as much time as you can with the neat people because it barely begins to make up for all the time you have to spend with the jerks.
If you know what you’re doing, it’s not an adventure.
“A wise man learns from his mistakes. A wiser man learns from the mistakes of others.” – Can’t remember.
I generally invoke the “…you just do what Jack Burton always does at a time like that…”
Stranger
I have a similar saying.
“When faced with a problem, one can more easily solve it by reducing it to the question: what would the lone ranger do?”
“Don’t Panic” – The Hichhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
You know, that is exactly the quote I was thinking of when I wrote that last post.
So I guess this means that your personal philosophy of life is either “The check is in the mail” or “It’s all in the reflexes!”
Wow - this really, genuinely describes my financial habits perfectly. That’s a bad thing, isn’t it.
Better to keep quiet and let everybody think you’re a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. – Mark Twain
“Brevity is not the soul of wit. Truth is the soul of wit; brevity is it’s body”
Quentin Crisp
One of the few times said Bard has been improved upon.
But just to round things out:
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
Dorthy ParkerI always heard this one as “Never attribute to malice, that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
And this one has a variation that’s really common in aviaton: “Learn from the mistakes of others; you won’t live long enough to make them yourself.”
My contribution, it’s pretty long and some may find it offensive. But I’ve found to to be one of the most truthful statements I’ve heard… And like everything else in life, there’s always exceptions.
“Son,” he said without preamble, “never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how how to survive himself. It’s damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he’s heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.” Then he paused for a long minute and added, “And, son, never trust a drunk except when he’s on his knees.” -James Crumley
“Never tell me the odds!”
Han Solo
20 billion years from now the world will be a frozen ball of rock, so what will it matter anyway?
Ol’Gaffer*
“Wherever you go, there you are.” *
Buckaroo Banzai ???
Wow I thought it might have been Bertrand Russell or Jean Paul Sartre. 