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When I was 16 Mine was remain with the company of people you are in will be your destiny
If at first you don't succeed....give up.
that would have confused me - at any ageremain with the company of people you are in will be your destiny
If you keep doing that, you'll make me squirt.
Mr Grimsdale Mr Grimsdale!!
No man is hurt but by himself.
You can't change others - you can only change yourself.
****'em they're all idjuts anyway.
WTF does the op mean?
The Easy Day was Yesterday Gentlemen.
I think the OP means hang around with ****ers and you will always be a ****er.
Was gonna say the same Al.
You can only piss with the cock you've got, and...
If you can't work out who the arsehole is in a group, people probably think it's you. Don't be an arsehole. To anyone.
Shouted from 3ft behind me at full speed heading towards hitting a large gap jump for the first time.
"If you ****ing bottle this jump I'm gonna ****ing ride into you"
I didn't bottle it. Thanks jay.
When I was about 12 my Grandfather gave me a framed and signed copy of Kipling's 'If' - I have it on my office wall at work for those moments when everything going to s**t!
Not so much motivational, but words I'll never forget, shouted at me as I jammed my finger through the bolt holes on a pair of flanges as an apprentice when trying to line them up. Probably a few hundred kg of pipe waiting to rip my finger off.
In the words of John Acky
What you doing? Would you put your cock in there?
(Me, sheepish) No.
Well divvint shove your fingers where you wouldn't put your cock then!
Advice I've lived by since then. 🙂
Nipper99 - Member
When I was about 12 my Grandfather gave me a framed and signed copy of Kipling's 'If' - I have it on my office wall at work for those moments when everything going to s**t!
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I have the same in my office, got it off my dad when I was 16.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
Hunter S Thompson
No problem is an orphan.
Never stop considering that you might be completely and utterly wrong.
If it hasn't been tested, it doesn't work. Told to me by a gnarled old australian ASIC engineer.
a officer at kirk levington detention center, told me, when i was 16, that 'it is nice to be nice'.
i have tried to live my life on that advice since that day.
i reckon most people who have met me, will agree that the advice seems to be working still.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.
My neighbour was an old carpenter,he saw me finishing work one Sunday and said "lad court your business and marry your girlfriend,don't court your girlfriend and be married to your buisines"
Sound advice.
I don't usually go in for mantras or words of wisdom, you can't encapsulate the huge complexities of life in a line or two, but...
An old boss of mine who I couldn't stand (and vice versa) once said "if we do what we did, we'll get what we got" and if I actually agreed with that socket on it I think, it must be good.
Move !!! you gormless xxxx !
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
? Maya Angelou
There's no point in cutting off your cock to spite your balls.
For those on a diet:
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels - Kate Moss.
There's no gods and precious few heroes
but there's plenty on the dole in the land o' the leal?
from climbing
your first hundred bits of gear are shite, the next thousand not much better
keep it simple, Dave Trott.
the deputy headteacher at school always said I was the master of my destiny. I think she got it from Henley.
It took me a long time to accept that.
here's the full version.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
Every rose has a thorn.
The surest cure for sea-sickness is to sit under a tree.
Success only comes before work in the dictionary
"You are a zombie maggot until you know the way of butterfly." (chewkw, 2015)
"There are many ways to reach the top but most people step on others to get there." (chewkw, 2015)
"On your death bed you see your past in this life and start to regret coz you see your future in hell." (chewkw, 2015)
"Your desires and wants are others' anguish and sorrow." (chewkw, 2015)
"There is only one rule for mankind, death." (chewkw, 2015)
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absence makes the heart go wander
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If not now then when shall we live ?
"Never waste one second of your life trying to work out what the f*&! chewkw is on about for he is banal in the extreme." (Spin et al, 2015)
If not now then when shall we live ?
Sounds like part of the old Jewish proverb the last bit of which was used by Primo Levi for the title of his novel about Jewish partisans in WW2:
"If I am not for myself who is for me? And being for my own self, what am 'I'? And [b]if not now, when?[/b]"
Well worth a read if you haven't already although being a born procrastinator myself the obvious answer is 'maybe later?'.
I like the Zen proverb:
After ecstacy, the laundry.
Kept my feet on the ground a few times.
Friend of mine once said,
"I don't care what statistics say, it [i]will[/i] be me."
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”? Mark Twain
If you set yourself on fire, make sure not to catch sight of yourself in the mirror, because you're likely to panic
Never trust a man who lies and cheats incessantly
Shit or get off the pot.
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't put it on his head
homer - Member
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
Sadly the folk who subscribe to that generally get their bloated bodies tipped into their grave after spending the last 15 years of their lives as a dribbling wreck in a wheelchair.
Best advice I got:
Don't shit in your own nest
Don't let your balls rule your brains.
Don't employ stupid or dishonest (both incurable)
Your reputation is like virginity. You lose it forever.
Pay more. Let the competition employ the monkeys.
Damn, I have an endless list 🙂
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
? Charles Bukowski
I also like the Steppenwolf line 'it's never to late to start all over again' - has gotten me through the last few weeks.
personally I think it is best to live by 'Primum non nocere' or first, do no harm.
Although sometimes that is very hard to abide by. However as everyone knows 'the Dude abides'.
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
+1 @ 30 Rock quote. In fact +1 generally for Tracey Jordan. Never fails. 😀
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Shit or get off the pot.
- Randal Graves.
Never drink in a flat roofed pub.
"Don't rest on your laurels"
Ron, my BAWLA coach.
@spin And it's time now to sweep the future clear
Of the lies of a past that we know was never real
"Be nice to people. If you aren't, they won't buy from you ever again."
"If in doubt, get some rounds down"
I do appreciate that they are almost mutually exclusive, but they are meant for different situations really.
Every rose has a thorn.
and if in doubt ask "What would Bill and Ted do?"
eff 'em all. (delivered best in a Salford accent)
RM.
One your first day when they ask you to make the tea/coffee do it badly
Footflaps, they'd enact Rule 2 of course, "Be excellent to each other!"
Rule 1 being, "Don't be a dick."
If everyone lived by these two simple rules, the world would be a much better place.
Find a job you love and you'll never work again.
"The only way to find out how far you can go, is by going too far..."
Pretty much defines the way I ride a bike. And explains the large collection of scars.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
"Nothing needs to die for you to live"
Father Yod
There's nothing as underrated as a good dump.
Spin - Member
"Never waste one second of your life trying to work out what the f*&! chewkw is on about for he is banal in the extreme." (Spin et al, 2015)
You need to do some deep thinking dude, deep thinking dude! 😆
You shall not be spoon fed dude! 😆
Get the to a nunnery
😆
[i]Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all...[/I]
So said Arthur 'better than none' Balfour. That this chimes with me may say something about my overall levels of motivation.
My father was an abusive alcoholic but also something of a poet. The one good thing he ever did was teach me the following few lines, which I repeated like a mantra when I was survived a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness with a half a dozen of my fellow oil workers. We were stranded hundreds of miles from civilisation and the only way out was to make our own way out. Unfortunately we were picked off one by one by a pack of wolves, until it was only me left, and I'll be completely honest and admit that I'm not sure if even I survived.
Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I'll ever know
Live or die on this day
Live or die on this day
"Life's not fair"
Once you've accepted this seemingly obvious fact, then there is the corollary
"Just get on with it"