'Phrase' your life.

Here's mine: 'not an abortion'

Mine used to be my signature on here:

"Never underestimate the power of fools in large groups."

You can read that on the ceiling of a bar outside the gates of a USAF base in Turkey.

It probably originates elsewhere, but a young girl psychic in an issue of Captain America says, 'Everything that should happen, will happen.'

And there's a saying accredited to the SF author Theodore Sturgeon (which is a variation of Murphy's Law): 'Ninety percent of everything is crap.'

But my favourite was penned by Spike Milligan and spoken by Eccles: 'Everybody's got to be somewhere.'

Matthew 7:7,8

Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened. For everyone asking recieves, and everyone seeking finds, and to everyone knocking it will be opened.

Also;

I'd never given much thought to how I would die. But dying, in the place of someone I love, seems like a pretty good way to go.

The second one is out of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight

Yaz :)

A friend once told me:

The grass is always greener on the other side. Trust me, I'm there.

The two following are both things my father used to say to me all the time when I was growing up.

"Everything happens for a reason" and

"Everything in moderation"

Although I've ignored the second numerous times over the years and found out, predictably, why my father said it, these have both served me very well.

The third one comes from a favourite author, Harlan Ellison:

"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."

A great one to remember when out on a Friday or Saturday night.

"Everything in moderation, including moderation." - is my preferred version of that particular saying.

"If you can't say anything smart, keep your dumb mouth shut." - Most of the major mistakes in my life have been down to not following this maxim.

Life is too be enjoyed

My father used to say to me;

'If God or nature, thought that you could learn more by talking than listening; he would have given you two mouths and one ear!'

also;

'What goes around, comes around!'

I have found both to be very true ;)

My dad once told me:

I was wrong once... I didn't like it.

I was wrong once ... I thought I'd made a mistake.

My father used to say to me: "the quality of life is not measured in years" - though the older he gets the less convinced he seems to be of this.

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"
William Blake

"Where's the palace?"
American tourist, London Waterloo, January 2010.

"I still haven't found what I was looking for."
Bono