Aphorisms Galore!

Submissions

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

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tiny.ag/hq1uewtj  ·  submitted 2011

Psychoanalysts only ask questions, because nobody would pay to hear their answers.

Simon Verkhovsky

tiny.ag/xqstdehd  ·  submitted 2011

Man always takes credit for dumb luck.

Simon Verkhovsky

tiny.ag/hdjermab  ·  submitted 2011

you catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar, but shit works best.

Simon Verkhovsky

tiny.ag/vm095ofs  ·  submitted 2011

Most people see what they want to see regardless of what their eyes are gazing upon.

David Zane Fleisher, Remarking on common sense..., in Wisdom and Ignorance and Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/ky4d7phz  ·  submitted 2011 by jibandiya

If you share my dislikes more than you share my likes, you are my friend.

Dipak Sen Gupta

tiny.ag/wfkpsrpx  ·  submitted 2011 by peter

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Niels Bohr, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/x3amsjwx  ·  submitted 2011 by wrothen

Inside and outside is one; and that is the meaning of ones being.

Wolfgang Rothen

tiny.ag/j70jkbal  ·  submitted 2011 by Uncle Zane

All of us are visionaries; only some of us see things as they could be while we are awake.

David Zane Fleisher, If dreams could speak...., in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/yokba1ue  ·  submitted 2011 by HumanoidAlien

In sports:
You may fail big, if you make people who're very good at their sport, to make a team. This also means that you may get the greatest success, by making people who're very bad at their sport, to make a team.

The odds that it'll be the other way around is higher, but odds are just numbers.

HumanoidAlien, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/ufj0dpkl  ·  submitted 2011 by sherudite

Dreams are the desires of the mind that ingrain the heart for verity.

Sheryl Cababat-Caberto, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/v3cx7rgw  ·  submitted 2011 by NebbioloKid

When mighty fulcans fly on by
woven girdles swell like
hooves of woolen silk.

tiny.ag/bjdwinzy  ·  submitted 2011 by NebbioloKid

Canopies of intransigence
move among us like
saline arches, smaller, perhaps,
but just as happily.

tiny.ag/f60pi48i  ·  submitted 2011 by NebbioloKid

When mighty fulcans fly on by
woven girdles swell like
povens of woolen silk.

tiny.ag/rgv5rqua  ·  submitted 2011

What's an idea worth, unless it works ?

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/mb3sdc4o  ·  submitted 2011 by rc

Most aphorisms are bullshit.

rc

tiny.ag/vstvaqgc  ·  submitted 2011

No matter what you've done with your life, the last thing you want to do is die.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/vopa73jj  ·  submitted 2011

We're only as wise as we apply.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/p8tdve1x  ·  submitted 2011

A sense of humor dispels all rumors.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/pys47wvk  ·  submitted 2011

(Whether a thought or what we feel,) we keep more secrets than we reveal.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/rok9grcz  ·  submitted 2011

Get used to things one way and it's a bother to do it another.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

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