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

Sweet Polly Purebred

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LadyStardust said:
I've always liked:

"It is better to remain silent and be presumed a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt."
lol

Great minds think alike, Lady S! I was just about to post that as mine!

Instead I'll add this "Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish."
 

Zig2k143

Practically Family
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Drums, Pa
This was always my motto for losing weight...

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

~ Earl Nightingale
 
Thora Zine said:
LadyStardust said:
I've always liked:

"It is better to remain silent and be presumed a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt."
Great minds think alike, Lady S! I was just about to post that as mine!
Indeed, another good one, ladies. Of course, the guy who said it was CIA...

HadleyH said:
_____ He Who Dares, Wins______
Just a little bit SAS commando at heart there, Ms. Hadley?:D
 

The Wolf

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Santa Rosa, Calif
Advice from fictional characters

Dean Wormer's advice to Flounder is some I've used: "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
The advice Sky Masterson's dad gave him (condensed), "never take a sucker bet."
My dad used to quote advice from Max Schulman's "Sleep Till Noon" but it isn't appropriate here.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

My motto is in my signature.
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MrNewportCustom

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Outer Los Angeles
One of my more recent favorites: "The trouble with truth, however, is that supply always exceeds demand." - Kinky Friedman


Lee
_______________________

"We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters." - also Kinky Friedman
 

scotrace

Head Bartender
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Small Town Ohio, USA
Just encountered this:

A man might be forgiven the kiss to which he was not entitled, but never the kiss he didn't have the initiative to claim.


Rather all-purpose, that.
 

carebear

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Anchorage, AK
scotrace said:
Just encountered this:

A man might be forgiven the kiss to which he was not entitled, but never the kiss he didn't have the initiative to claim.


Rather all-purpose, that.

On a similar note.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky
 

Rafter

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CT
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind,
that is as near to perfection as I can be.
 

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