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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/s9db0zkw  ·   Fair (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Successful promiscuous fornication is not proof of your virility, my friend-- it is merely proof of your partners' lack of taste.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/iel06ooi  ·   Fair (16 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Gun control advocates are snivelling cowards who depend on other people having guns for their safety and defense.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/qsgo3b4a  ·   Fair (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

It becomes apparent that our society would rather have rampant sex and dead children, than have chastity and have to talk about something besides sex.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/mfyu3wyb  ·   Fair (11 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

All the sexually liberated culture has done for women is deny them the moral leverage to say "no."

RHJunior

tiny.ag/j1vxlxnd  ·   Fair (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

It used to be said that it was hard to argue with success. Liberals have solved that dilemma for themselves quite handily; they have made it a cardinal sin to be successful.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/ojqrucrj  ·   Fair (5 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

If it weren't for petty jealousy, demagogues like Jesse Jackson would die of starvation.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/zc20er3b  ·   Fair (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

In a democracy, sound statesmanship can never withstand a determined effort to incite the public.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/cx6fh79t  ·   Fair (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

"Don't eat anything with a face?" Fine. I'll abide by that-- as soon as everything with a face promises to not eat me.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/g6ywutk5  ·   Fair (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Human misery isn't caused by chance, fate, or the Poverty Fairy. It's caused
by humans. Always, by humans-- powerful humans who exercise total control,
and who are answerable to noone.....

RHJunior

tiny.ag/jemz6lgh  ·   Fair (7 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

I worry a bit when the greatest vice social activists can attribute to someone is "extremism". As if the fervor with which someone believes something were more important than the actual content of what they believed....

RHJunior

tiny.ag/7lgyxu4o  ·   Fair (6 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

In the scientific world, you can obstruct progress as long as you like, without losing 'face', but you take your life in your hands when you try to help progress along...

RHJunior

tiny.ag/parj1bwo  ·   Fair (5 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

L.R. Powell

tiny.ag/pxemwk0w  ·   Fair (14 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

'Phobia' is the new slap-down word of the 21st century. All you do is have to say someone is fill-in-the-blank phobic, and you establish the presumption that they need counseling and enlightenment-- in other words, that they're crazy and need a shrink.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/jnrgw3fz  ·   Fair (7 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Should we assume that the opposite
of falling in love is rising in hate?

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/eviuogh2  ·   Fair (8 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Why does English language suggest that a wo-man is a type of man?

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/dslfubtv  ·   Fair (3 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

You can sleep in your car, but you can't drive your house.

Tommy Leydecker, 1977

tiny.ag/fgytbipw  ·   Fair (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H.G. Wells

tiny.ag/kgleh16j  ·   Fair (14 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

tiny.ag/u3j4iq2t  ·   Fair (10 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Men are designed for short, nasty, brutal lives. Women are designed for long, miserable ones.

Dr. Estelle Ramey

tiny.ag/85e1tphg  ·   Fair (8 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Politics, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

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