“Learn from the mistakes of others, you’ll never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
-Alfred E. Neuman
and
Live by the Golden Rule, “Thems that’s got the gold makes the rules.”
Get busy living, or get busy dying. – Tim Robbins in “The Shawshank Redemption”
Whatever speed you think you can drive, drive slower. – My Dad.
All information can be classified into one of three categories: Need to Know, Nice to Know, and Who Gives A Shit. – parahprased from somewhere
Think for yourself. Question Authority. – Timothy Leary
You’ll never hear anyone on their deathbed wish they’d spent more time at work. – ???
Shut up and reboot. – Dogbert’s tech support
Also happens to be my sig, and I try to live up to it:
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the
seriousness of a child at play”
Heraclites, Greek Philosopher [BC 500]
The Butthole Surfers album - Locust Abortion Technician came out in the late 80’s. The quote is from the beginning of the song ‘Sweatloaf’. A quick search shows me that the Orbit song was released in 1997 - looks like they sampled it. LAT is brilliant btw.
Nothing is true! Everything is permissible!
“When the facts change, I change my mind; and what do you do, sir?” - John Maynard Keynes.
Actually, it wasn’t him. One Evelyn Beatrice Hall has coined the phrase in a book about Voltaire while paraphrasing Voltaire’s opionions.
Thanks, I always wondered where that came from. BTW, the 1997 was a remix, the original was 1991 - still later than TBS.
“A gentleman never causes anyone harm unintentionally.”
W Churchill, Warrior/Statesman.
(Less applicable, but amusing…)
“When forced to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
W Churchill, Warrior/Statesman.
“What you want for yourself, give to someone else” - Conversations with God
“Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death.”- Auntie Mame
“I may not have morals, but I do have standards.” -I don’t know, which reminds me…
“Knowledge is power.”- Schoolhouse Rocky
‘If you wish in one hand and piss in the other you know whhich will get filled the quickest’- from my grandfather
Fuck 'Em. -Unknown
“Don’t take life so seriously, you’ll never get out if it alive” - Can’t remember
“Remember, pillage first, THEN burn” -Bumper Sticker
“Oh, honey! It’s a …” (unwraps gift) “…power saw?”
“Yeah. Happy birthday, dear! Mind if I borrow it sometimes?”
The obstacle is the path.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -Charles Darwin,
naturalist and author (1809-1882)
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power,
not the increase of it. -Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the U.S., Nobel
peace prize winner (1856-1924)
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same
race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by
noon. -George D. Aiken, US senator (1892-1984)
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never
worshipped anything but himself. -Richard Francis Burton, explorer and
writer (1821-1890)
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise
in the world. -Marguerite Guardiner, writer (1789-1849)
“I would like it said of me, after I am gone, that I plucked a thistle and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Love many. Trust a few. Harm no one.” - William Shakespeare
“Life is pain. Anybody who tells you different is selling something.” - Wesley from The Princess Bride.
“It’s either you or the rooster,son”…said by my Father as he pushed me into the chicken run and latched the gate behind me. I was about 7 at the time, and had provided lots of entertainment and opportunities for the big ole Leghorn rooster who lorded over a flock of about 20 hens.
Every morning it was my job to feed, water and clean up the chicken run…and every morning that ole Rooster (Think of the big white Rooster in the cartoons) would strut his stuff in front of the girls and then launch his attack. Hackles up, wings a tornado, and spurs flashing like a sword dance…that rooster would spur me, beak me, and whack me with his wings…
I got to where I was crying, and begging to not do the chores…My Dad wouldn’t put up with this, so one morning he came up to me as I stood bawling outside the gate to the chicken run. He was a man of few words…I remember clear as if it happened this morning…he bent down and picked up a 1 x 2 board…it was painted a dull green, and measured about 18 inches in length.
He looked me in my tear-filled eyes, handed me the stick, and opened the gate…pushed me through, and latched it shut.
That rooster went through his warmups, and then launched himself at me. Whack! I connected…and my sobs turned into war whoops…I was one of the lost boys in Peter Pan!
That rooster never tried anything with me again…so my Dad’s “It’s either you or the rooster, son” really turned into one of the great lessons of my life.
Lots of roosters out there.
“To thine ownself be true.” Don’t know, can’t say
“We are all responsible for our own actions” I’m OK, You’re OK (I think)
Don’t take the man’s money unless you do the man’s job.-- my father
It is better to wear out than rust out. – my father
Just good old-fashioned work ethic.
Your job is to be happy. – my mother
My mother’s advice sounded simplistic, almost selfish at first…until I learned what all has to be in place to be truly happy and that those things take a lot of work and nurturing.
Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. --Will Rogers
I forgot one.
“Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?” - Terry Pratchett