Your favorite motto, saying, axiom, raison d'être...

[TKNAKED]

Nothing is easy when everyone is on different reality levels.

 

[winterknight]

Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

And the corollary to Clarke's Third Law: Any technology which is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

 

[codeerror]

"Don't complain under the stars for lack of bright things in your life"




"One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
"
-Henrik Ibsen

 

[Darkflower]

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice Wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Continue to learn.
Appreciate your friends.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.

-Mary Anne Radmacher

 

[Darkflower]

Would you rather be right, or effective?

--Dr. Phil

Ashamed to quote him for some reason, but there you have it. Which brings me to:

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.

--?

 

[Mako247]

last chance ice....

 

[PatFrance71]

Mieux vaut tard que jamais
(Better late than never)

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ignore
(The heart has its reasons which the reason ignores)

 

[talbot57]

Yesterday I was confused, today I'm not so sure

 

[Under-taken]

I ~love~ quotes, donno why!

Death is the Road to Awe (The Fountain)

The choices we makes, not the chances we take, determine our destiny (on some poster I have ^^)

Ockham's Razor; the most obvious answer is most likely correct.

 

[winterknight]

Ockham's Razor; the most obvious answer is most likely correct.

Strictly speaking, Ockham's Razor is "Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity"

 

[Mako247]

i am not mad at you, I am mad at the dirt

(ie focusing on what is really the issue)

 

[Under-taken]

Strictly speaking, Ockham's Razor is "Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity"

Yar, I only meant from a philosophical interpretation on it's relation to day to day situations : D

 

[Maelstrom]

These are a few I remember. Not terribly funny, but thought provoking none the less.
Not in any particular order, although I am a Carlin fan RIP Carlin.

One man can change the world, with a bullet in the right place. ~unknown

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. ~Carlin

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ~Carlin

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. ~Carlin

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. ~Carl Sagan

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. ~Carl Sagan

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love ~Carl Sagan

 

[RonR18]

"We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water."
~Sister Busche

 

[Buckley]

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean everyone isn't out to get you."

But maybe that one's a little too downbeat? The maxim I try (often very unsuccessfully) to live according to comes from an interview with Jimmy Cagney:

"No stress, no strain."

 

[morgaes]

Fuck it!

And two very Icelandic points of view:

Þetta reddast! - "Mehh, it's bound to work out in the end!"

Seinni tíma vandamál! - "That's future-me's problem!"

 

[RonR18]

"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
~Joshua J. Marine

 

[RonR18]

"Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries."
~Anonymous

 

[asadoyayunta]

Tis better to have lost in love .....than to be stuck with the psycho for the rest of your life.

 

[RationalLunacy]

Especially for all you young pretty things out there:

"It's nice to eat a spoonful of honey, but you get sick if you drink the whole jar."