March 29, 2001    
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If you could embroider an old-fashioned sampler with a moral text, what would that text be?

Do unto others as you would have them do to you.

Talia, 23
Wilton
, CT   USA

"Carpe Diem" (Seize the Moment)

Reba, 51
Rockville
, MD   USA

An it harm none, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Stephanie, 25
TX   USA

"Accept that your life will never be normal and go on from there." It was something my best friend in high school said without thinking one day, and as soon as she said it we all realized there was a LOT of truth to it.

Kim, 30
New York
, NY   USA

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It's been found that the  Golden Rule is the common bond among virtually all religions.

Jane, 60
West Linn
, OR   USA

"Walk a mile in another man's shoes before you pass judgement."

Fisch, 45
Preston
, CT   USA

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Fish, 40
Port Dover, Ontario CANADA

Love one another as I have loved you.

Laura, 36
Lowell
, MA   USA

Live and Learn

Stephanie, 25
TX   USA

A sewing type saying?  "Ouch! Goddammit! Where's that thimble?"

Alias Irrelevante

"To thine ownself be true"

Jennifer, 19
Wilkes-Barre
, PA  USA

I can't answer that. There are people under the age of 17 reading this.

Karen, 21
Marshelltown/Ames
, IA  USA

You're only as old as you feel.

Kevin M.

Being a guy named Bruno, odds are pretty slim that I do much embroidering. That is like asking Stone Cold Steve Austin if he does ballet. Anyhow, that would have to be from Socrates (not sure of the exact  wording). Like "A wise man knows how ignorant he is." Socrates reeks of awesomeness. Also, I would put up a quote from Homer Simpson: "To alcohol, the cause of and solution to all of lifes problems." Frankly, embrodering is not my bag, not that I will have a cow about it, since I'll just knock myself out...whatever works for me.

Bruno, 31
Denver
, CO   USA

Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, and Dance like nobody's watching.

Sarah S., 17
Ithaca
, NY   USA

I don't know if these count as moral texts, but I'd still embroider them.  Actually, no, I'd pay someone to embroider them FOR me, but there'd be that same sentimental attachment.  "Always late but worth the wait." "Those who think they know everything are a real annoyance to those of us who do." :-) Just kidding, but I like those two sayings.

Katie2, 18
Detroit
, MI   USA

"Do unto others what you would have them do unto you."

Eric, 18
Beverly Hills
, CA  USA

Either, "Lord, what fools these mortals be." or "Oh, brave new world that has such people in it.

Jill, 60
Saylorsburg
, PA  USA

To Thine Ownself Be True

Felicia, 35
Lowell
, MA   USA

"A teacher who makes little or no allowance for individual differences in the classroom is an individual who makes little or no difference in the lives of his students." -- William Arthur Ward

Tracy, 24
Ocean City
, NJ  USA

I would embroider the Serenity prayer as I have used it to direct me in my daily life many times. Lord help me to accept the things I cannot change and help me to change the things I can. My dad lived by that toward the end of his lfe.

Marci, 55
Diamond
, OH   USA

I don't understand this question. . . What's a "sampler" in this context?

mothmc, 36
Los Angeles
, CA  USA

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.

Janet, 42
E. Brunswick
, NJ  USA

Yesterday / Tomorrow