Post your adages here: (I need them)

[JimmyJazz]

MrSandman has an awesome one in his sig line: "Who angers you controls you."

Here's a quote that I've always admired: "If you try to give a reason, it sounds like an excuse and there are no excuses...."

BTW - a cookie to the person who can identify the author of the second quote :D

[LynneSin]

1. The best adage from Road House

All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.

[JimmyJazz]

4. you are a mess!

I LOVE YOU! :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[hfojvt]

7. always give your opponent plenty of chances to make a mistake

"What people want, mostly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree." John Brunner "Jagged Orbit"

[asthmaticeog]

11. With all due respect, I thought the best adage in that film was

"there's always barber college."

[asthmaticeog]

"You can wish into one hand and shit in the other

and see which hand fills up first."

I believe the source on that may be Harry Crews, but it could be older.

[Bok_Tukalo]

2. "Fear is the mind killer.

Fear is the little death that brings total oblivion"

- Frank Herbert

also

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

- Isaac Asimov

[nytemare]

10. "Fear is the mother of violence"

Peter Gabriel, in a song. But, someone else might have said it before him...lol.

[Az]

3. "Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."

Andre Gide

[ucmike]

5. the best mistakes to learn from are someone else's

[Longgrain]

12. "you can learn more from your successes, than you ever could

from your mistakes."

an old writing teacher in college told me that.

[swag]

6. The likelihood that a proposition is true

is often inversely proportional to the degree of certainty with which the proposition is stated.

swag's observation on overconfidence among know-it-alls.

[RevCheesehead]

8. "A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat"

-Monty Python

[libodem]

9. Mind over matter....

if you don't mind....it don't matter

[Abelman]

13. "Good Enough" is never good enough.

Another:

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
-Steve Prefontaine.

[miss_kitty]

14. You already read my adage

in a PM earlier tonight. less succinct but very similar to MrSandman's, said with a bunch of different words! :P

[JimmyJazz]

16. Here's mine:

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

It's not very clever, but I think the point is made?

[JimmyJazz]

15. Practice does NOT make perfect.....

PERFECT practice makes perfect.

[Tom Kitten]

17. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

from Dorothy Parker, that was in my sig line for awhile.

[Goathead]

18. First rule of Fight Club is - you do not talk about Fight Club n/t

[Az]

19. I can resist anything but temptation

- Oscar Wilde.... this thread needed a Wilde quote.

[mark414]

20. i've always liked the one in my sig

it's an anonymous quote...found on the wall at the vesuvio cafe in san francisco, california...right next door to city lights books

[davsand]

21. Loyalty is earned, never commanded.

Dunno where it comes from, but there is no truer adage, IMO.

I also have come to appreciate the saying, "If you are gonna take out the king be sure you get it done on your first try."


Laura

[nuxvomica]

22. "Never assume malevolence when mere incompetency will suffice

I usually try to give folks the benefit of the doubt though I'm afraid the neocons are capable of both simultaneously. As Einsten said: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

[bridgit]

23. red sky in the morning...

sailor take warning.

[Bossy Monkey]

24. I've got a million of them. I kinda like: The environment is everything.

Couple more:
You can get a square peg into a round hole. Eventually.

Living well is the best revenge, but blowing up the bastards' houses works pretty well, too.

Some of the other 999,997 are on my site, reachable from my DU profile.

[MrSandman]

25. A couple...

It is not enough we prepare our children for the world;
We must also prepare the world for our children
LJ Rodriquez

Don't complain; don't explain.
Henry Ford

Fake it until you make it.
AA

No good deed goes unpunished.

[RPM]

26. If your butt is itchy

"If your butt is itchy, do not stop to scratch it, because by the time your hand gets there, it will be gone." - Ronny Barna

[Quixote1818]

27. Their are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to every one striking

the root. Henry David Thoreau

(I like this one because it's the way liberals like to solve problems while conservatives like to hack at the branches, or for that matter, create more evil.)

And of course my sig line by Emerson (see below)

[MrSandman]

29. Apathy is the glove...

Into which evil slips it hand.

[BigMcLargehuge]

28. word to live by -

"All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this." Miyamoto Musashi

"Do nothing which is of no use." Miyamoto Musashi

"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing left to pursue." Yamomota Tsunetomo

"Whenever you meet difficult situations dash forward bravely and joyfully." Yamamota Tsunetomo

[Arkana]

30. "Don't pee on my boots and tell me it's raining."

Isn't that Texan in origin?

[taught_me_patience]

31. "There are two paths you can go by...

but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on" - Led Zepplin


"Don't take any wooden nickles"

"Louder ye dubitors"


taught.

[JimmyJazz]

32. ha ha ha - I can't believe you quoted Zepplin to me!

:D

[UrbScotty]

33. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

FDR was right.

[kwassa]

34. one vile fucking task after another

"In life you have to do a lot of things you don't fucking want to do. Many times, that's what the fuck life is... one vile fucking task after another."

- Al Swearengen, Deadwood