# Your mottos **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 2, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105 "2002-07-02T21:51:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/21 "2002-07-03T03:55:55Z")
“No, I didn’t plan it all that well. I thought I would be dead by now.” ---
**Author:** ![croaker67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@croaker67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/croaker67)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/22 "2002-07-03T04:27:13Z")
No good deed ever goes unpunished. I heard it on a M.A.S.H rerun and took it to heart. ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Luongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chris\_Luongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chris_Luongo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/23 "2002-07-03T04:57:05Z")
No good deed goes unpunished—so very true! Taste it, don’t waste it. Spitters are quitters. If you have duct tape, it ain’t broke! If it ain’t broke, fix it 'til it is. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/24 "2002-07-03T05:05:52Z")
On my very first date with the woman who is now my wife, I told her my motto: “There’s no such thing as ‘too much chocolate’.” And darned if that motto isn’t still with me 7-1/2 years later…about 60 extra pounds of it. 😃 Fortunately, so is she. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/25 "2002-07-03T05:26:37Z")
**"Each to their own"** To remind myself that we are all different, and that that is a good thing. **"No regrets"** To remind myself that I don’t want to look back when I’m old and regret not having done things. ---
**Author:** ![LadyMack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@LadyMack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadyMack)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/26 "2002-07-03T05:33:33Z")
Winners never quit. Quitters never win. God forgives, and You & I aren’t better than He is. A life well lived is the best revenge. You’re dying from the moment that you’re born. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/27 "2002-07-03T05:47:27Z")
Life’s too short to be boring! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/28 "2002-07-03T10:45:22Z")
The best things in life aren’t things, and, Jesus is coming! Quick everybody look busy! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/29 "2002-07-03T11:14:06Z")
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/30 "2002-07-03T11:15:37Z")
Piss me off, pay the consequences! ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/31 "2002-07-03T11:18:16Z")
[Oh, and try these demotivations if your work place is innundated with ‘inspirations.’](http://www.caughtatwork.net/demotivations) ---
**Author:** ![CptHowdy65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@CptHowdy65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CptHowdy65)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/32 "2002-07-03T11:25:17Z")
Clean mind / Clean body — Take your pick !!! Film at eleven ---
**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/33 "2002-07-03T11:31:52Z")
Whenever I feel particularly bad about myself, I think, “Don’t put yourself down, you’re not worth it.” ---
**Author:** ![bifar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bifar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bifar)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/34 "2002-07-03T11:37:01Z")
Funny, I thought of one only this morning. ‘Dusty is better than slimey’. Well, it made sense at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/35 "2002-07-03T11:44:29Z")
“Stay away from women, that’s my motto.” _“But I can’t!”_ “Neither can I. That’s my trouble.” ---
**Author:** ![EggNogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@EggNogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EggNogg)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/36 "2002-07-03T11:57:26Z")
“Dont put a sock in the toaster” It’s always worked for me egg ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/37 "2002-07-03T14:09:12Z")
“Keep your tires warm and your beer cold.” Yep, it was from a commercial, but it kind of stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/38 "2002-07-03T14:29:54Z")
“and yet perhaps…” or “Hmmm, just maybe…” ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/39 "2002-07-03T14:39:27Z")
“What is life but an irritating interuption of peaceful nonexistence” ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mottos/117105/40 "2002-07-03T14:49:32Z")
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