“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, shouting GERONIMO!” Hunter S. Thompson

The above to be combined with rule 1 and it’s all gravy.

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.” Dr Seuss

Just read this elsewhere…I would do well to remember it.

onomatopoeia is a wide word

“Stay off the brown acid”

Ian Brown , Glastonbury some year

“#YOLO” – Abraham Lincoln

What other people think of me is none of my business. Wayne Dyer

Never trust a man who lies and cheats incessantly.

Don’t compare your behind the scenes footage to someone else’s highlights reel.

All it takes for evil to flourish, is for good men to stand by and do nothing.

The whale that spouts gets harpooned

Although the whale that doesn’t spout dies of suffocation.

As a reminder to keep your mouth shut and listen more: “Un hombre es dueño de sus silencios y esclavo de sus palabras”

Eagles may soar… but weasels rarely get sucked into jet engines.

The only person who cares if you tried your hardest is your mum.

“One must experience everything in life except incest and folk dancing”– attributed to an anonymous Scotsman by Sir Arnold Bax.

I always liked this one from Jenn

Here you are with your arms and legs and walking around in the good sunlight. That’s winning. You’ve won, see. The rest is just gravy

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance (or ride bikes) in the rain.

I always liked one, used at work and play:

Celebrate success – don’t wait to get perfect.

Also its the early bird that gets the worm, but the second mouse that gets the cheese!

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck there’s still a chance it could be a merganser

This one’s a bit rude.

“He’s some kind of ****”

This mean’s he’s a **** of such epic proportions it’s a kind we haven’t encountered before.

Accidents with chainsaws are seldom trivial…………..

Getting older doesn’t stop you doing things, stopping doing things makes you older.

You don’t stop playing when you get old, you get old when you stop playing – George Bernard Shaw

Measure twice cut once

It depends how much you are prepared for it to hurt – Lawmanmx from here on how to get up a stiff climb

Thou shalt not think any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a paedophile. Some people are just nice.

And

Thou shalt not judge a book by its cover.
Thou shalt not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover.

(Scroobius pip)

The trouble with common sense is that it isn’t all that common.

Wenns schifft,wird nass.

This too will pass

“If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do”

If you’re arguing with an idiot, he’s probably doing the same thing

“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
Probably attributed to Mark Twain or Winston Churchill.

‘Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.’

This has stuck with me for some reason, it’s surprisingly motivational.

If you’re arguing with an idiot, he’s probably doing the same thing

Can we have that enshrined as the forum motto please? 😀

I’ve always like the HG Wels quote:

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

A journalist asked Gary Player what role luck played in his golf game, he replied ” It’s funny you know, the more I practice, the luckier I get.”

growing old is inevitable, growing up is a choice

which alwasy reminds me of my Uncle, who on his fifty-somethingth birthday said to me:

“when I grow up, I want to be just like Victor Meldrew”

Never drink in a flat roofed pub.

If you don’t keep running you will be run over.

“The Dude Abides”. Oh and “**** it, let’s go bowling”.

😀

Not my favorite but I came across this and liked it

If I had only one hour to save the world then I would spend 55 minute defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution

A. Einstein

An idea I also came across in HHGTTG (42) which I’m re reading.

no-one ever had on their gravestone “I wish I had spent more time at work”

I think I read this right here on STW but anyway, I’ve used this a few times since:

“Without data, you’re just some guy with an opinion”

[Edit – google credits this to W. Edwards Deming]

The road to hell is paved with assumptions

It is what it is, we are where we are, its what you do next that matters

Timing is everything

We are here and this is now – the book of Om.