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Corollary: you're more likely to regret not doing something than you're going to regret doing something.

Exceptions: Tequila, mountain bike stunts and anything that didn't start to seem like a good idea until three drinks ago.

You don't regret that stuff... you just laugh really hard about it in a few years.

...if, of course, you're still alive then. (At least for the mountain bike stunts...)

Technically, you still don't regret it even if you aren't. ;-)

More exceptions: accidentally having a baby, committing a felony, ruining your reputation, dropping out of college, risking brain damage, etc.

"Ron's first law: All extreme positions are wrong." -- Ron Garret

(Naturally that only applies in some cases, but here I think it's pretty apt.)