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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (16 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

[aphorist] Burt Bacharach, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (667 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

[aphorist] Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in [category] Life and Death

An Evening Wasted (audio CD)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (9 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

[aphorist] Jean Giraudoux, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (270 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.

[aphorist] Austin Holmes, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (142 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (891 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] David Knight

An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.

[aphorist] David Knight, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (53 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

An excuse is the mark of a moral coward.

[aphorist] Joseph Cimino, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (674 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

[aphorist] John F. Kennedy, (comment when asked about his heroism), in [category] War and Peace

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (278 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

[aphorist] Aristotle, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (13 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

[aphorist] Robert Burton, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

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

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

[aphorist] Yogi Berra, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (157 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (283 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Megan

To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.

[aphorist] Anatole France, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (904 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 (43 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

[aphorist] R. I. Fitzhenry, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (170 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

[aphorist] Anatole France, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (159 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 (807 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

[aphorist] Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (638 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

[aphorist] Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in [category] Vice and Virtue

History of England (paperback)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (721 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.

[aphorist] Tom Clancy, in [category] Art and Literature

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