Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/hcgfyxv9 · submitted 1997
A .44 magnum beats four aces.
tiny.ag/hjgpjdl6 · submitted 1997
A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn.
tiny.ag/iuvg5od2 · submitted 1997
A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project will take only twice as long.
tiny.ag/27fahwgf · submitted 1997
A computer can make as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working for 20 years.
tiny.ag/ow0faywn · submitted 1997
A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there.
tiny.ag/no4elqmc · submitted 1997
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
tiny.ag/elkpp3t4 · submitted 1997
Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.
tiny.ag/vaj63mlc · submitted 1997
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/5wea9qlk · submitted 1997
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
tiny.ag/6wwft1cd · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
tiny.ag/cwprmiyl · submitted 1997
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
tiny.ag/6ldwnwhf · submitted 1997
A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
tiny.ag/ry72cat0 · submitted 1997
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
tiny.ag/m3n54rvj · submitted 1997
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
tiny.ag/vpdlcnc4 · submitted 1997
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.
tiny.ag/ajoczguy · submitted 1997
Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (the Susie Derkins character), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/0aw3r6zu · submitted 1999
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
tiny.ag/rvxpkbzw · submitted 1997
The average person thinks he isn't.
tiny.ag/mtyfl0j1 · submitted 1997
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