A Lot o' Mottos: What are your words to live by?

[Gary Crumrine]

"There ain't many troubles
A man cain't fix,
With $700
And a 30/06"

Jeff Cooper, RIP

 

[Zeropositive]

If you don't die for something you live for nothing.

A lot can happen in Five Minutes.

 

[Undertow]

"There ain't many troubles
A man cain't fix,
With $700
And a 30/06"

Jeff Cooper, RIP

Bless this quote! I think I'm going to copy this on a piece of paper and put it in my wallet.

 

[Cobden]

"Never tell a Hell's Angel one of his tattoos is mispelled".

 

[chucklehead]

sua sponte
who dares wins
DE OPPRESSO LIBER (Liberate From Oppression)
custom is the law of fools - Vanburgh
write if you get work

 

[Dr Doran]

"Never trust a man named Smitty."

- my dad, Matthias H. Doran



"Never drive a car when you're dead"

- Tom Waits, from "Telephone Call from Istanbul"



"Always watch a man's hands if you've just REPEATEDLY insulted him"

- myself; advice foolishly not taken by my older brother after he repeatedly insulted me; hospital (for him) and court hearings (for me) ensued

 

[pretty faythe]

good one for ladies.....

and really any one in general.....

 

[PA Dancer]

"What goes around comes around"

"Don't sweat the small stuff..."

"Leap and the net will appear"

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Keep your eyes on your own plate.

 

[ShortClara]

"A is always A" - John Galt (via Ayn Rand)

 

[MisterPaul]

"Never pay full price for anything." - My Grandfather

 

[Absinthe_1900]

It's A Crazy Old World, And A Man Is Lucky If He Gets Out Of It Alive. W.C. Fields

 

[Smithy]

K.B.O. - "Keep buggering on" - Winston Churchill.

 

[be_lovely]

Here Here Faythe!!!! This is one of my favorites too!!!!! :eusa_clap

and really any one in general.....

 

[LadyStardust]

Not to live by, but more to guard against:

Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you. -Benjamin Franklin- :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[dhermann1]

"When in doubt, throw it out."
and of course, "Semper Fi."

 

[Smyat]

TANSTAAFL

there ain't no such thing as a free lunch

by way of Robert Heinlein

Ah. Sounds as if you even know the correct derivation of that one.

I'll contribute an old one I formulated long ago: "We all dig our own graves."

 

[RIOT]

Here is one I had heard recently..

"When in doubt, frag out"

and

"March or Die"

 

[Smyat]

Maybe a little elfy-welfy for this crowd, but I've always liked:

Summon demon is a first-order spell.
Control demon is a sixth-order spell.

Allowing for application, I've found that all too true over the years.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

"It's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it".


-dixon cannon