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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (885 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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (796 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 2004)

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

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (569 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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (896 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Johan

Sharks mainly attack when your're wet.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (813 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

The early bird catches the worm.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (881 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] John Cannizzaro

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (845 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

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

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (812 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

Everyone smiles in the same language.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Happiness and Misery

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1049 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

If you're here, you're alive.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (842 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] LEStephey

A small journey begins with one step and ends with another.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (961 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Glenn Troester

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (853 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Glenn Troester

Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (881 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Glenn Troester

When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (922 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Glenn Troester

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (984 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Glenn Troester

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (815 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

One thing is one thing. Another thing is another thing.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (866 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Falcon

Men don't need women -- they just need certain parts of their anatomy.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (890 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1084 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

[aphorist] Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in [category] Success and Failure and [category] War and Peace

War Games (VHS (NTSC))

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (795 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

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)

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