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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (270 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

[aphorist] Walt Disney, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (3032 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

[aphorist] Robert G. Ingersoll, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (262 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

[aphorist] Hans A. Bethe, in [category] War and Peace

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (196 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.

[aphorist] Al Capone, in [category] War and Peace

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1016 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

[aphorist] Thomas Dekker, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (182 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (70 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

[aphorist] John Keats, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (148 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

[aphorist] Edmond Jules Goncourt, in [category] Art and Literature

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (438 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

[aphorist] Haldane, in [category] Health and Disease and [category] Vice and Virtue

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (253 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

[aphorist] Samuel Johnson, in [category] Art and Literature

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (768 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

[aphorist] Benjamin Disraeli, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (185 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

[aphorist] Rudyard Kipling, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (223 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (812 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

[aphorist] Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in [category] Success and Failure

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (paperback)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (3065 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.

[aphorist] Erkki J. Jyrkkanen, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (184 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

[aphorist] Krystal Ann Kraus, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (938 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Erwin van Moll

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

[aphorist] Jorge Luis Borges, "Three Versions of Judas", in [category] Vice and Virtue

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (185 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (176 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

[aphorist] Lao Tsu, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Comment#  ·  *--- Poor (245 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

[aphorist] Louis Armstrong, in [category] Vice and Virtue

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