Aphorisms Galore!

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

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tiny.ag/by5bpiet  ·  submitted 2010

You won't get anywhere, by dwelling on the negative, but you just, by accentuating the positive.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/4kjcru2i  ·  submitted 2010 by chance47

Sentimentality is the most heartless calculation

Chauncey Carter

tiny.ag/mpbn4b6h  ·  submitted 2010 by chance47

Crazy people make other people crazy and that's why everybody's crazy

Ching Dao

tiny.ag/mkesr28z  ·  submitted 2010

"When you are expected to exceed expectations, expect the unexpected."

Oleg Vishnepolsky, ISecond Cat is because he was probably referring to Project Management, in Success and Failure and Science and Religion

tiny.ag/maeqay25  ·  submitted 2010

If something is not working properly, beating on it seldom solves the problem.

Charles Emery

tiny.ag/qqrbu1fd  ·  submitted 2010 by ldolton

THOSE WHO BEAT THEIR GUNS INTO PLOWSHARES WILL PLOW FOR THOSE WHO DON'T. THOMAS JEFFERSON

, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/cvcemdkv  ·  submitted 2010

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

George Marshall, US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate (1880-1959), in War and Peace

tiny.ag/dslzgt5b  ·  submitted 2010 by kimian111

If you don't have the time to do it right, what makes you think you'll have time to do it over?

G. E. Watkins, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/pdgulbek  ·  submitted 2010

The time is always now. Yesterday's gone, and tomorrow remains forever in doubt.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/n9ey8poo  ·  submitted 2010

If our "center" isn't rational consciousness, then what is ?

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/xhywdysu  ·  submitted 2010

It's easy to find fault in someone else, when what you see, you've known yourself.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/quw4tfkt  ·  submitted 2010

Better to look twice, than to wish you had, down the line.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/xcf07ebz  ·  submitted 2010

Better to believe in nothing, than in something, that doesn't make sense.

tiny.ag/utcjfa86  ·  submitted 2010

In any relationship, trust is a must, because everyone wants someone they can count on.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/dfnljxx6  ·  submitted 2010

Some things are better left unsaid. Even if true, they could be misread.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/owsxrn7a  ·  submitted 2010

You've got nothing to lose, and everything to gain, by laying all your cards on the table, and playing your best game.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/5zmpbmic  ·  submitted 2010 by chance47

Rules are for people without scruples

Chauncey Carter

tiny.ag/x5vqql91  ·  submitted 2010 by luridhope

If you stop bleating long enough, all you can hear are sheep on both sides of the fence.

Luridhope

tiny.ag/8lg1tpom  ·  submitted 2010 by luridhope

Abortion is murder and should be legal. Anyone who says otherwise is either lying or trying to take away woman's right to choose.

Luridhope, in Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/ibe3pdgq  ·  submitted 2010 by luridhope

Hope may not be lost, but it's easily misplaced.

Luridhope, in Altruism and Cynicism

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