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/wkmfb09z  ·  submitted 2009 by lboggs

Mediocrity is its own reward: you get what you give.

Lowell Boggs, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/98ajlqav  ·  submitted 2009 by nibil

Each thing supports another.

, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/4rbvmj5g  ·  submitted 2009

A smelly foot stinks up a shoe, a smelly attitude stins up your home.

tiny.ag/rvghzcax  ·  submitted 2009 by redmagen1

Do nothing, and nothing will happen.

, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/cv28dwgh  ·  submitted 2009

"Some times it is more important to support your friends when they are wrong, than to support them when they are right."

William Lamb, Lord Melbourne -- also Prime Minister, A measure of the enduring values of personal loyalty., in Law and Politics and Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/lhvuxohm  ·  submitted 2009 by stanbow

It does´nt take so long to become a household name ....Usain Bolt achieved that in under 10 seconds .

Richard Bowles, When asked ,how long it does it take, to be famous or well known?

tiny.ag/rxrugizn  ·  submitted 2009 by ackymantastic

"Those who would rule over you are the very ones who should not"

Roy Acton - myself, in War and Peace and Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/ogw1jfm4  ·  submitted 2009

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair, in Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/ijmd2uln  ·  submitted 2008

Remember, the real F-word is 'future.'

John Alejandro King, from 'The Naked Intelligence Officer'

tiny.ag/3j6y09bq  ·  submitted 2008

if the pen is mightier than the sword, lets go outside and test that theory.

Unknown

tiny.ag/evgun7k8  ·  submitted 2008

If I ask you what 2+2 is, and you come back a day later and tell me not 25...

Dr. House

tiny.ag/fzw8cqfr  ·  submitted 2008

don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Unknown

tiny.ag/q9ldcge2  ·  submitted 2008

It was like Time. An undeniable force that did not exist until we spoke its name.

Sergio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/rd7mm4ig  ·  submitted 2008

Heavy weighs the crown and so we the people took upon the burden without realizing its weight.

Sergio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/imnlg7xw  ·  submitted 2008

Better to be lucidly unhappy than ignorantly blissful.

Sergio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/cjwtvvc6  ·  submitted 2008

Signification is attacked until everything means everything and nothing means anything.

Sergio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/sfaiwjoc  ·  submitted 2008

I have so many faults that I must be approved of in other ways.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

tiny.ag/s37d1mv6  ·  submitted 2008

Life is a game that can't be won; to be fair though some of the pieces are missing, destroyed long ago in a toddlers rage.

Sergio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/uf267alh  ·  submitted 2008

Nothing has existence in itself. Nothing exists except in dual, antagonistic exchange

Jean Baudrillard

tiny.ag/ha0w5ofh  ·  submitted 2008

The World is not what we think, it is what thinks us in return.

Jean Baudrillard

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