What are some good axioms/rules to live life by?

Hear are some quotes the blogbaba tries to live by:

1. Say yes when you mean yes, and no when you mean no. (Bible)

2. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. (Winston Churchill)

3. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. (Ernest Hemingway)

4. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain)

5. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. (Abraham LIncoln)

6. Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

7. Showing off is the fools idea of glory. (Bruce Lee)

8. If a man does his best, what else is there? (George S. Patton)

9. Life is full of misery, loneliness and suffering...and it's far too short. (Woody Allen)

10. Let no man pull you so low as to make you hate him. (Booker T. Washington)

11. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why "right" temporarily defeated, is stronger than "evil" triumphant. (Martin Luther KIng Jr.)

12. Knowledge will give you power, but character...respect. (Bruce Lee)

13. We have been amazingly patient but we come here today to save ourselves from the patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

14. Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him. (Bruce Lee)

15.Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

16. Empty your mind, be formless, Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend. (Bruce Lee)

17. The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

18. Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it. (Bruce Lee)

19. In the end we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

20. Be pliable, when a man is living he is soft and pliable; when he is dead he becomes rigid. Pliability is life, rigidity is death, whether one speaks of a man's body, his mind, or his spirit. (Bruce Lee)

21. We must learn to live together as brothers, or parish together as fools. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

22. The oak tree is mighty, yet it is destroyed by a mighty wind because it resists the elements; the bamboo bends with the wind and by bending survives. (Bruce Lee)

23. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

24. Simplicity is the key to brilliance. (Bruce Lee)

The blogbaba doesn't know if these fit the description of "rules or axioms" but they work for me.

My mother's favorites, which have influenced me:

#1 If you can't say anything nice about someone, don't say anything at all.

#2 Haste makes waste (Ben Franklin, from Poor Richard's Almanac)

#3 You can catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

#4 Never spend your money before you have it. (Thomas Jefferson)

Some of my other favorites:

Thoreau - "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

Teddy Roosevelt - "Speak softly and carry a big stick"

Sir Francis Bacon - "Knowledge is power"

Rules to Live by:

1) reproduce as much as possible

2) find love-this can be done before the previous, but does not necessarily have to be

3) If you’re male-play video games as much as possible, and if it’s not possible, make it possible. Also, make sure to name every car that passes. This is essential to human existence

4) If you’re female-spend as much of male counterparts money as possible on shoes and/ or purses. Also, make sure to play video games a lot, but only when male is not looking so as not to subject oneself to being called a hypocrite by male.

5) Everyone, male and female alike, should lie, cheat and steal as much as possible, without getting caught. If you are caught you should lie, cheat, or steal your way out of danger. If you cannot lie, cheat, or steal your way out of it, then one may have to kill. This is only acceptable after all faucets of escape have been exhausted. If homicide is unsuccessful in depleating the danger, suicide may be the best answer. If this does not work, it doesn’t really matter because you are dead. I cannot tell you what may happen to you at this point, that is another pondering altogether.

6) Become a materialistic consumer of objects with monetary value. AKA- collect a lot of expensive ****. This may require money, but if none is readily available, see number 5.

7) Explore yourself and try to achieve self actualization. This has never been done before, so best of luck to you, and if you so happen to discover the person that you really are, or why you do the things that you do, please call me, as I have yet to figure this one out.

8) Get a cat. A dog is a sufficient substitute, but only in the case of allergies. Cats are, always have been, and always shall be, superior in every way to dogs, and in fact, all other animals, maybe including humans. Dog lovers know this, they are just in denial.

9) Never admit your own faults. We all have them, so there is really no reason to feel bad about yourself because you pick your nose or run over small children with large vehicles on purpose. However, do make sure to dwell on everyone else’s problems and faults, as this will make you feel better about yourself, and isn’t really hurting anybody anyway. Except for the small children.

10) Have fun. Listen to loud music, eat all the carbs you want, and for god’s sake dance naked on poles wearing nipple tassels- just don’t use super glue, for the nipple tassels or anything else. Unless you want to be glued to something permanently. Remember that the government sucks. You can consider their laws to be simply norms, which do not have to be followed, as conformity is frowned upon by self actualized people. Not that any of us are self actualized. Refer to number 7.

The race may not always go to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but it's the way to bet.

1# never tell anyone that you love them after .. you have sex with them .it's always before you go there.

2# what ever you do in life always put in 100% ---- and that's stands for doctor to a burgary --- never half as-s anything and be the best at it

Treat others the way you would want them to treat you.

To have friends, one must be a friend.

An old Indian saying follows:

"One day I went out to find my enemies and I found no friends. The next day I went out to find my friends and I found no enemies".

Happiness is the journey, not the destination.

Whats Appreciated in the Begining is Expected in the End