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/ox56xrz2  ·  submitted 2010

Try as you might, you can't hide from your own mind.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/fgdvfu9c  ·  submitted 2010

The universe may not have a "purpose", but it works.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/tmpsqnk8  ·  submitted 2010

There's no worse feeling, than having a need for something, that's out of reach.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/sjo50vq4  ·  submitted 2010

We tend to keep vigilant, until we forget. More caution is spent on a memory, that's fresh.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/nibfzxrv  ·  submitted 2010

Better to say too little, than too much. Fists aren't the only things, that carry a punch.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/qu96hjzs  ·  submitted 2010

You know how someone stands, by whether they give you a second glance, or let you pass.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/snajqwad  ·  submitted 2010

Take care when you drive. The life you might save, could be mine.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/5tpbnzv0  ·  submitted 2010

Relax, life can be taxing enough without a laugh.

Paul Trawitzki

tiny.ag/amodux7q  ·  submitted 2010

Even though it's not always easy to speak, it takes a stronger mind to know when to keep quiet.

Paul Trawitzki

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

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