Aphorisms Galore!

Submissions

These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.

1701–1720 (6054)

tiny.ag/bg4zckrj  ·  submitted 2014 by aumsree

"Learning grows through sincere and unbiased inquiry."

Author Unknown, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/sa6b4vyd  ·  submitted 2014 by aumsree

"Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book."

Author Unknown, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/wab4nwvp  ·  submitted 2014 by Gordo2

If you ever undertake to cross a river that has an average depth of 5 feet, and when you get half way across, it's still ankle deep, then refer to the rule of holes: "When you're in one, stop digging!"

Author Unknown, This is a combination of two common aphorisms that is kind of funny., in Wisdom and Ignorance and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/729fdoxs  ·  submitted 2014 by Gordo2

If you ever undertake to cross a river that has an average depth of 5 feet, and when you get half way across, it's still ankle deep, then refer to the rule of holes: "When you're in one, stop digging!"

Me, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/bsx0jtrs  ·  submitted 2014 by Gordo2

If you ever undertake to cross a river that has an average depth of 5 feet, and when you get half way across, it's still ankle deep, then refer to the rule of holes: "When you're in one, stop digging!"

Me, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/y4jmqjye  ·  submitted 2014 by Gordo2

If you ever undertake to cross a river that has an average depth of 5 feet, and when you get half way across, it's still ankle deep, then refer to the rule of holes: "When you're in one, stop digging!"

Me, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/hkgdji2s  ·  submitted 2014 by Gordo2

What you think you want, you over value, and once you get it, you take it for granted, but if you lose it you realize its true value, but it's too late!

Me, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/klpqdpev  ·  submitted 2014 by capofreddi

The news is like an astronomy teacher who reports the daily motion of the planets instead of teaching us Newton's laws.

Author Unknown, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/6cpsvher  ·  submitted 2014 by capofreddi

Aphorism: a post-it note on the bedpost in the amnesiac ward of wisdom.

Author Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Art and Literature

tiny.ag/jpkzwerz  ·  submitted 2014

#YUMC*M

Unknown

tiny.ag/lzexnksg  ·  submitted 2014 by Jeffrey.Pardo

You can be as smart as smart can be; but, if you ain't got [common sense], you ain't got.

Author Unknown, Elementary School Teacher, 1966, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/ghzoiptq  ·  submitted 2013 by yatut

There are two types of people who are always right, clients and crazies.

Author Unknown, freelance artist , in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/j6ase3yn  ·  submitted 2013 by yatut

There are two types of people who are always right, clients and crazies.

Author Unknown, freelance artist , in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/duvbpjwm  ·  submitted 2013 by yatut

There are two types of people who are always right, clients and crazies.

Author Unknown, freelance artist , in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/nplmehly  ·  submitted 2013 by secoyarose

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game

Unknown

tiny.ag/ashpiu4v  ·  submitted 2013

Big things are made up of lots of little things.

Author Unknown, in Science and Religion and Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/lx78nyeb  ·  submitted 2013 by frankm4art

What you see is never what you get.

Author Unknown, in Art and Literature and Life and Death

tiny.ag/yihdnc7y  ·  submitted 2013 by frankm4art

What you see is never what you get.

Author Unknown, in Art and Literature and Life and Death

tiny.ag/djnaymin  ·  submitted 2013 by frankm4art

What you see is never what you get.

Author Unknown, in Art and Literature and Life and Death

tiny.ag/blefddkp  ·  submitted 2013

"I have never been comfortable with people comparing politicians to whores. After all, whores are hard working, rarely think that they're better than you, never call the cops on you, and never force you to hire their cousin Bernie. All in all I think the world might be a better place if politicians were more like whores."

E. H. Munro, in Law and Politics

1701–1720 (6054)