Quotes you live by

[Thomas Highway]

"A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable." - H.L. Mencken

 

[NyQuilninja]

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be
James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

 

[Videowatcher69]

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

 

[Wallace]

"Let the lie come into the world. Let it even triumph. But not through me." --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

[Just Another Apocalypse]

Its such a fine line between stupid and clever

Watch out where the huskies go, and do you eat that yellow snow

Every uneducated man should own a book of famous quotes

 

[KeepHopeAlive]

Life isn't fair.

Thanks Dad.

 

[Hummingbird]

"Comply and you won't die."-Larry Elder on handling cops.

 

[Maurice Caine]

 

[Kornula]

"Why have sympathy when you can point and laugh at people?"

Me

 

[AbyssStarer]

"Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out" - Walter Kotschnig

This quote seems to have been attributed to a few people, I first read a similar statement in the novel Seven Types of Ambiguity when I was younger.

 

[Unpaid Emotional Labourer]

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself...Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.” — A Civil Campaign, by Lois McMaster Bujold, ie the greatest author of all time kys if you disagree.

 

[awoo]

The future ain't what it used to be

 

[VIPPER?]

I can't think of any. I feel alien for it.
Maybe "This isn't a normal situation, asshole." from Snow Crash?
I used to like "All we can do is keep running" as quoted in Mirror's Edge but I'm sure it's older than that.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QjM6xbJglPY

Que sera sera?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jxt3KOsGlI

 

[Jazz never died!]

 

[Power Ranger Monster]

"Those who try to be the better man can be taken advantage of, will be taken advantage of"
-Someone had to have said it by now

 

[Jason Wynn]

“Well I tried, didn’t I? Goddamnit at least I did that.” - Randall Patrick McMurphy

 

[Devyn]

"There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs."
-Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions

 

[Big Ruski]

"Be a man
You must be swift as the coursing river
Be a man
With all the force of a great typhoon
Be a man
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon"

-Sun Tzu

 

[Merrick]

"No one gets out of this alive."
"How do the English reproduce? The women go to France for their summer holiday."

- My father.

 

[Brahma]

Perfect is the enemy of good.

I've got that autistic "it won't be perfect the first time I try so I shouldn't try at all" thing going on so this is something I try to remember.