Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
tiny.ag/pgsxbect · submitted 1998
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ogrpomi2 · submitted 1997
Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?
tiny.ag/rxjp4mey · submitted 1997
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
tiny.ag/u5mb79tw · submitted 1997
Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/mzqjkhnh · submitted 1997
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.
tiny.ag/lpeqizys · submitted 1997
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
tiny.ag/wk0s75et · submitted 1997
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened, it won't last.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
tiny.ag/qowr2a9d · submitted 1997
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/0jnrf9e2 · submitted 1997
Nothing good ever ends.
tiny.ag/6ntlf03d · submitted 1997
No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
tiny.ag/axmb1ikq · submitted 1997
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
tiny.ag/3dgnw9ta · submitted 1997
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
tiny.ag/akq8lupr · submitted 1997
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/9umqrmgd · submitted 1999 by Bill Masterson (wmasterson
The race may not be always to the swift, or the battle to the strong, but that's sure the way to bet.
tiny.ag/wjnnpmri · submitted 1997
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
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