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Non Biking -
A great one from when I was a younger non married drunken geologist -
When it gets to 1 am, dont give up hope, theres always one who wants it!
'If ya know what I mean' 😉
Biking -
Never miss the opportunity for a ride.
A pessimist is rarely disappointed and never outraged.
The first pipefitter I worked with told me to "never put you finger where you wouldn't put your dick" when he caught me trying to line a pair of flanges up by putting my finger through the bolt holes. I still live by that advice today!
Ni La Na Gaoithe La Na Scoilb?
Gaelic for "dont piss in the wind" but literally means: dont decide to patch your roof the day of the storm. Good marital advice IME.
Never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
"If somethings hard to do then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson
"You tried and you failed. The lesson is, never try". - Homer Simpson
“You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?”
Terry Pratchett- Hogfather.
Not a Discworld reader but I came upon that line once and it's stuck with me ever since.
That and the fabled "one love, one life, let's get together and feel alright". Timeless and true.
"Fit, sane, single.... choose any two" 😀
Oh, and:
"Keep the pen out the company ink".
In the manual for a Honda quad;
"Stupid hurts"
What goes around comes around.
Always a good motto to follow, that and always give someone enough rope to hang themselves.
"Never play cards with a man called Doc."
Get your retaliation in first.
with enough lubrication, you can do anything.
Take a coat when it's fine, please yourself when it's raining.
Go hard or go home.
'his mother was German,& his Dad was Irish,which makes him a very efficient Idiot !'.
'if ure not fast !,ure last !'
My lifetime motto has become "More by luck than judgement"...
**** 'em all, bar four. They can carry the stretcher.
F'k em all and let god sort em out...never trust a man with a moustache...
There's more ways to kill a pig than choke it with strawberry's.
Stand by the banks of the river long enough and the bodies of your enemies will float by........
Always ride the horse the way it's facing.
Once suggested to me by a Buddhist monk - 'We all make our own world'
The difference between a good tradesman and a bad tradesman, is that the good tradesman learns from their mistakes
Three words to live by: Mindfulness, acceptance and attitude
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A few that stick in my mind:
In life you get what you settle for (Thelma and Louise 😀 )
The biggest risk in life is to risk nothing at all (read in Dirt's Adam brytons interview earlier this year).
Don't eat yellow snow (Bear Grylls....)
Life is not a dress rehearsal
You get what you give.
always follow your finger, never sit on a straw and never trust a cornflake especaily if it has crunchy nuts.
A few words a wise sage told me.
Pain is temporary, glory is forever, bones heal and chicks dig scars
never ever, ever, bloody anything, ever.
One day i'm going to be dead. So anything that happens between now and then is a bonus...
If in doubt, go faster.
Works in a surprising amount of situations.
You may be better looking than, you may be smarter than me, you may be more talented than me, but if we get on a treadmill together either you're getting off first or I'm gonna die.
Never do today what can be put off until tomorrow.
Just remembered what Cam McCaul said once and it defines riding to me:
"As kids we learn, after touching a hotplate, not to do it again because it hurts. What is it about riding a bicycle that, no matter how much pain and damage is inflicted, we get up and start all over again?"
I don't know if I'll ever find an answer.
"fortune favours the brave"
Usually uttered shortly before a feeling of pain.
'Put the fun between your legs.' is a favourite of mine for cycling.
"under promise over deliver", I even remember when that was one of the internal mottos for our company when dealing with customers. Just seemed right to adopt it and apply it to my career there!
Presumption is the mother of all c**k ups
"stoop if the roof is low" confucious.
"don't sweat the small stuff, and it's all small stuff...."
DrP
'You're not here for a long time, you're here for a good time' - great ethos to live life by.
Also...'treat most situations in life as a dog might, if you cant play with it, eat it or shag it, walk away'....sort of goes hand in hand with the first one!
Never trust a hippie.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
that which doesn't kill you, makes you stranger
and
it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission
My philosophy is, basically this. And this is something that I live by. And I always have. And I always will. Don't, ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been. Ever. For any reason. Whatsoever.
cfinnimore - Member
Just remembered what Cam McCaul said once and it defines riding to me:"As kids we learn, after touching a hotplate, not to do it again because it hurts. What is it about riding a bicycle that, no matter how much pain and damage is inflicted, we get up and start all over again?"
I don't know if I'll ever find an answer.
That's an easy one. Touching a hot plate has no upsides/fun. Riding does. Bit of a silly quote really...
humour aside, the one I genuinely live by is:
"time is priceless: You can never afford to buy any more of it no matter how much you earn"
My cornflakes were fine without wee-wee on them [b]anotherbike[/b].
And I keep burning myself on the f'n hotplate so I guess the best quote is:
"Stupid is, as stupid does". 🙂
Always use apostrophes correctly. A fine standard to live by.
Can't believe we've not had this one yet:
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it"
Flash-what about full stops and colons?
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Always use the colon correctly, cynic-al.
Full stop.
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Should we add the humble hyphen to that list, Al? 😉
"No-one ever lost the front end on the gas" Keith Code book 'Twist of the Wrist'.
Glad you're enjoying the scraps from my table, gents.
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"Don't count the other guy's money."
"F8 and be there."
"There are no friends on powder days."
Two of the most important things in life are respect and manners and guess what, they're both free. 😉
Less is more
You should regret things you have done and not things you haven't done.
Add life to your days
Rather than days to your life
Allways stuck with me that one !
And like lukes above
Its better to regret something you have done rather than something you haven't
Live better stories.
Believe in something......or you'll fall for anything
Few miles to go on a long run/ace....
Repeatedly to oneself....."any c**t can run 3 miles"
Bill S. Preston, Esq - "Be excellent to each other"
Me - "Meh ... that'll do"
Best out of three
If you want to know the easiest way to do something, ask a lazy man.
Don't stand up when you can sit down, don't sit down when you can lie down, and don't be awake when you can be asleep.
We're all Gods creatures in the dark...
Non-bike = Karma's only a bitch if you are.
Bike = No pain no gain.
'The way I see it, you're born and then you die. Anything else is a bonus'. Ted, from Ted and Ralph, The Fast Show.
My two,
Shit happens.
Family first.
Change What You Can, Don't Worry About What You Can't
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Life is not a dress rehearsal
Man I hate that one.
Slow down and go faster
The only constant in life is change itself.
The only person whose behaviour you can fully manage when you enter a classroom is your own.
(The last one is from Andy Vass - other teachers may have heard of him.)
paulosoxo - Member
The first pipefitter I worked with told me to "never put you finger where you wouldn't put your dick"
Haha that's great, I am taking that one, since my fingers are pretty sliced up.
My sensei once said
"slow is smooth; smooth is fast".
Actually, he said that a lot.
I love this one.. it gives me a little hope when i feel like there is none!
One door shuts, another one always opens....
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, don't get suckered into blindly assuming it is a duck.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
oh and pain fades pride is forever !!
My riding buddys favorite when im fading on a climb " BEAT NATURE " at the top of his voice