Honey, let's get ice cream! But tomorrow we are eating healthier! (Repeat nightly) Michelle
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
Ooh, what's that do?
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Live. Die.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
Efficiency is an advanced form of laziness.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Sometimes I wonder. The rest of the time I know.
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
Love. It's simple, really.
space opera
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
"Where you tend a rose... a thistle cannot grow" --"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I don't know that it is a motto, but from the moment I first heard it, I knew I liked it.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Be excellent to one another.
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
ClaudiaTherese: So, do you also like Emmanuel Kant?
Mine would be: "Tudo vale à pena, se a alma não é pequena" (Fernando Pessoa): "Everything is worthwhile, if your soul isn't small".
[ August 11, 2004, 10:08 PM: Message edited by: Eduardo_Sauron ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I LOVE that, Eduardo. It is beautiful, and sounds sexy even in writing.
Oh, wait, sorry, it wasn't supposed to sound sexy, was it?
Posted by JaimeBenlevy (Member # 6222) on :
I'm not working a day in my life, I'm putting all my hope in the lottery...not much of a motto is it?
Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. -Al Capone
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
Elizabeth: It's poetry. So, it's suposed to feel whatever feelings it awakened in you.
Since you were interested, here is the whole:
Mar Português (Portuguese Sea)
"Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal São lágrimas de Portugal? Por te cruzarmos, quantas mães choraram, Quantos filhos em vão rezaram! Quantas noivas ficaram por casar Para que fosses nosso, ó mar!
Valeu a pena? Tudo vale a pena Se a alma não é pequena. Quem quer passar além do Bojador Tem que passar além da dor. Deus ao mar o perigo e o abismo deu, Mas nele é que espelhou o céu"
(Translation)
"O, salty sea, how much of your salt are Portugal's tears! Because we sailed thee, how many mothers cried, How many sons and daughters prayed in vain! How many brides never married So you would be ours, sea!
Was it worthwile? Everything is worthwile If your soul isn't small. One who wants to pass the Bojador (n. t. Good Hope's Cape, in Africa) Must pass beyond the pain. God gave the sea both danger and abyss But also mirrored the sky in it.
(Fernando Pessoa)
(poorly) translated by Eduardo_Sauron
[ August 11, 2004, 10:22 PM: Message edited by: Eduardo_Sauron ]
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Do you best, but you can't do everything.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
I think I'll change my personal motto to Elizabeth's Bill and Ted's quote.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
I'm going to have to stick with the one I had engraved on the inside of my high school class ring:
Scientia est potentia.
That's Latin for "knowledge is power".
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
Instead of not making decisions you'll regret, don't regret the decisions you make.
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
Serious motto: "Born into this world we create echos of our inward yearnings, and shift along the axis from matter to spirit."
Not-quite-so-serious-motto: "The gift of accurate foresight is often called cynicism by those who do not possess it."
Really-not-serious-motto: "Now ask yourself: do I really need that flamethrower, or do I just think it would be fun to have?"
Feyd Baron, DoC
Posted by Bekenn (Member # 6602) on :
Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides! (Spot the reference, win a cookie!)
No mottos here; my life speaks for itself.
Posted by DocCoyote (Member # 5612) on :
There's often more than one right answer.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
quote: Sometimes your grand purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
-Trevor
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
*user's motto not yet defined*
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I'll submit mine then go back and read:
"What would Jesus do if he was a female Chinese/English mix living in Utah with a husband, three living children and a Linguistics degree?" The answer is usually "bake more bread".
What is "now you see it, now you don't" a unique reference to? Took me a minute to get it. I still don't see how Temet nosce means know thyself.
I used to have a motto that was "Worse things have happened to nicer people." But I kind of think that one sucks now.
[ August 12, 2004, 10:01 AM: Message edited by: pooka ]
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
"I'm betting I'm just abnormal enough to survive!"
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I have many, but here are my top 10
10) Never turn down free chocolate. 9) Smile, it comforts your friends and confuses your enemies. 8) Too many people seek to be understood. Too few people seek to understand. 7) My worlds is not black and white, nor shades of grey, but contains all the colors. 6) Fear not tears. (as in don't fear tears, not fear instead of tears) 5) Be one of the good guys 4) A positive world view makes me happy. A cynical world view upsets my stomach. 3) Reality is 99% assumption, speculation, bias, deduction, refferal, faith, belief, and guess work. Only about 1% is true, hard, concrete, fact. 2) I believe that 1% is an extremely high estimate.
but my #1 Motto
1) Whenever forced to choose between A or B, always choose C
[ August 12, 2004, 02:16 PM: Message edited by: Dan_raven ]
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
It used to be "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength."
Now it's "There is no audience."
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
Don't let the bastards were you down.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
"It seemed like a good idea at the time."
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
"People are like the stars--there are bright ones and there are those that are dim."
However, in all seriousness, my personal motto, or quote, would be "Guys, I wouldn't recommend that..."
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
CT:
-Trevor
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
Heh, let me guess... You're a fan of dispair.com aren't you TMedina.
I've always been fond of "Personalities are contagious; mine might kill you."
Fyed Baron, DoC
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
"My worlds is not black and white, nor shades of grey, but contains all the colors."
So said Sarumon.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
There are just two rules for succes: 1) Never tell all you know.
Or: Sic transit gloria mundi. (Means "Gloria's sick but is on the way anyway and will probably arrive on Monday".)
Serious one: When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Alexander Graham Bell
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
On a good day "We must be the people we want our children to become".
On a bad day "At least I don't live in a refugee camp"
Posted by J T Stryker (Member # 6300) on :
Live for the moment, f^%k the past it's done and gone, and why worry about the future, it may never come, you could suddenly die, and then all that time you used to worry about the future, would be wasted, you could have been out having fun.
Posted by NdRa (Member # 2295) on :
Out of sight, out of mind.
Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
"If it didn't hurt, it was too easy."
"Every tomorrow I wait for is a yesterday I've lost."
"Do it the hard way."
"When's lunch?"
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"Frivolity is a stern taskmaster" -Zippy the Pinhead
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Alternately: "It takes a lot of in- and outdoor schooling, to get adapted to my kind of fooling."
and "I had a lover's quarrel with the world"
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
"wha da fah?"
alternatively,
"honey, I've got a headache."
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Eat my grits.
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
May god bless those who love us, turn the hearts of those who hate us, and if he cant turn thier hearts, let him turn their ankles so we may know them by their limp.
Posted by Bekenn (Member # 6602) on :
aspectre gets a cookie, with extra sprinkles for coming back with one of my favorite quotes from my favorite character!
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I love that movie!!!!!
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote:"Sometimes being a b**** is all a woman has to hold onto."
Stephen King, "Dolores Claiborne"
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
thanks, mate.
fallow
Posted by DocCoyote (Member # 5612) on :
Hey, Tom,
Have your mottoes changed at all since 1996? I think we might have to get engaged if not.
Posted by Sharpie (Member # 482) on :
Mine is something along the lines of "conduct yourself in such a way that if your children ever ask you hard questions, you won't have to lie to them."
Of course, then there's the whole tooth fairy fiasco ...
Posted by peterh (Member # 5208) on :
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.
Posted by BelladonnaOrchid (Member # 188) on :
In the end, chaos rules all.
Alternately: See, you can keep your hell-I believe in reincarnation.
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
at the current point I'm in my life:
Dear Lord, I pray for Wisdom to understand my man; Love to forgive him; And Patience for his moods. Because, Lord, if I pray for Strength, I'll beat him to death.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Hah!
Good luck.
-Trevor
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I don't dance to look good - I dance to feel good.
Posted by Khal Drogo (Member # 6786) on :
My Arakhs bigger than yours.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Corwin, the quotation you posted by Alexander Graham Bell is remarkably similar to one I know by Helen Keller:
quote:When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
I am, unfortunately, unable to find references for either quote, so I don't know who said it first.
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
*giggles* CaySedai, may I borrow your motto?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
saxon, the two knew each other very well, I believe. It wouldn't be surprising if both got it from a third party and changed it slightly, or one was quoting the other.
Dagonee
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Posted by resnos (Member # 6730) on :
So it goes. -Slaughter-House Five
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
Tammy:
Feel free to use it - I found it somewhere online.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
I like
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, and a lot of bi%$*ing. - unknown
Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn - unknown
Words build bridges into unexplored regions - you don't want to know
Law of conservation of confusion : The total amount of confusion in this world remains constant. It just gets shifted around
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off.
that should be enough. they are good things to live by.
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