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/ix4oebtc  ·  submitted 2004

Albert Einstein said, 'Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.'

... Well, here's one mediocre mind that thinks we ought to give Einstein's ideas a fair hearing.

The Covert Comic, @ www.covertcomic.com

tiny.ag/1gbmrkzq  ·  submitted 2004

Is it possible for a Catholic chess player to win the game without taking the bishops?

Petigò

tiny.ag/mjkspsh0  ·  submitted 2004

First came the one-wheel bycicle.
The one with two wheels was a great invention, as it saved many noses.

Petigò

tiny.ag/lzy9mrnm  ·  submitted 2004

If Dr. Moreau had owned a vacuum cleaner, he'd probably be alive today.

John A. King a.k.a. 'The Covert Comic', www.covertcomic.com

tiny.ag/vhkkmxpn  ·  submitted 2004

I read this quote by Aleister Crowley: "I do not want to have anything to do with a conventionally minded person any more than I want to eat canned salmon." Talk about a wake-up call: I was eating canned salmon when I read this.

John A. King a.k.a. 'The Covert Comic', www.covertcomic.com

tiny.ag/fcqx3m4c  ·  submitted 2004

I disagree that Voltaire wrote, 'I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

John A. King a.k.a. 'The Covert Comic', www.covertcomic.com

tiny.ag/sevqqlbw  ·  submitted 2004

i thought i thought a thought that the thoughts that i was thinking.

Unknown

tiny.ag/pthki0vo  ·  submitted 2004

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Agatha Christie

tiny.ag/zyvx9phi  ·  submitted 2004

There are three types of people in life. Those that make things happen, those that saw what happened and those that wondered what the hell happened.

Jim Bash

tiny.ag/ayityp5w  ·  submitted 2004

There are three types of people in life. Those that make things happen, those that saw what happened and those that wondered what the hell happened.

Jim Bash

tiny.ag/nft0dyqn  ·  submitted 2004

We've got both kinds of music, Country and Western.

Unknown, Blues Brothers

tiny.ag/be8o7rll  ·  submitted 2004

A portrait is painted to a romantic ideal rather than a true depiction of the idiosincratic features of the person in question.

Rowan Atkins, As said by Baldrick in the Black Adder s

tiny.ag/lwcynwob  ·  submitted 2004

They say good things come to those that wait, but the things they get are the things left behind by the people who got there first.

Steve Tyler(I think)

tiny.ag/lxjm0g7s  ·  submitted 2004

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends under the couch.

Unknown

tiny.ag/7infulkn  ·  submitted 2004

I read that knowledge is power, and right after that I bench pressed three hundred fifty pounds.

The Covert Comic @ www.covertcomic.com, From 'Who Killed The Covert Comic?'

tiny.ag/vbeowlsg  ·  submitted 2004

I disagree that Voltaire wrote, 'I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- After reading Evelyn Beatrice Hall

The Covert Comic @ www.covertcomic.com, From 'Who Killed The Covert Comic?'

tiny.ag/0dtjf8ey  ·  submitted 2004

I read a quote attributed to the Beatles. What did they do, speak it in unison?

The Covert Comic @ www.covertcomic.com, - From 'Who Killed The Covert Comic?'

tiny.ag/ouyhqpjn  ·  submitted 2004

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

Bryant McGill

tiny.ag/ituzlp7h  ·  submitted 2004

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures, 1990

tiny.ag/erwsupmm  ·  submitted 2004

How could the Romans remember their phone number?

Petigò

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