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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (6 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Success and Failure

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (315 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Food and Drink

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (92 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Love and Hate

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (47 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Life and Death

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (849 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Success and Failure

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (50 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

One does not make friends, one recognizes them.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Love and Hate

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (54 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (49 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (796 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Voters are people who have the God-given right to decide who will waste their money for them.

[aphorist] Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in [category] Law and Politics

Politicians and Other Scoundrels (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (31 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Death and taxes may always be with us, but death at least doesn't get any worse.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Life and Death

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (43 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Work and Recreation

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (116 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (51 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Love and Hate

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (114 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

You are not what you think you are, you are not what they think you are, but you could be what you think they think you are.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Success and Failure

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (49 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Success and Failure

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (131 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Law and Politics

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (898 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 2007)  · 

We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

[aphorist] Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in [category] Work and Recreation

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (800 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 2004)

A pseudo-intellectual is a person who knows what "pseudo" means.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (577 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] S.Skipper (updated 2000)

Good friends stab you in the front.

[aphorist] Unknown, (from the movie Can't Hardly Wait; sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde), in [category] Love and Hate

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (900 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Johan

Sharks mainly attack when your're wet.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

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