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/42apzwiy  ·  submitted 2005

If global warming was outlawed, only outlaws would warm their globes.

The Covert Comic @ www.covertcomic.com, - from 'My War On You!'

tiny.ag/nbfsr52z  ·  submitted 2005

Those who cannot remember the past are invited to come over to my place.

The Covert Comic @ www.covertcomic.com, - from 'My War On Terror'

tiny.ag/0d4cbtrv  ·  submitted 2005

To blame wickedness on Christianity is to blame obesity on dieting, to blame theft on the police, to blame fires on the fireman, to blame sickness on the doctor.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/itbuxuek  ·  submitted 2005

For 'tis a truth well known to most,
That whatsoever thing is lost,
We seek it, ere it comes to light,
In every cranny but the right.

William Cowper, The Retired Cat

tiny.ag/jo6t2zvi  ·  submitted 2005

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake.
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

Tyler Durden, Fight Club

tiny.ag/d5houpvr  ·  submitted 2005

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin

tiny.ag/stb5p9wg  ·  submitted 2005

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

Sy Parrish, One Hour Photo

tiny.ag/cmw6m0re  ·  submitted 2005

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

Susanna, Girl Interrupted

tiny.ag/pwuvay95  ·  submitted 2005

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg, New York Times April 20, 1999

tiny.ag/ukopblc2  ·  submitted 2005

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles, Electra

tiny.ag/5aj3kixw  ·  submitted 2005

I only slept with her cause I'm in love with you!

Sean Bateman, The Rules of Attraction

tiny.ag/k6jfpqd2  ·  submitted 2005

Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

Sandra Bullock, Hope Floats

tiny.ag/qtmegtyu  ·  submitted 2005

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Ring Lardner, How to Write Short Stories

tiny.ag/ovxfu4fk  ·  submitted 2005

The President can bomb anybody he likes.

Richard Nixon, Nixon

tiny.ag/h7ti2xnk  ·  submitted 2005

Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais

tiny.ag/ul5vmvkz  ·  submitted 2005

Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man that wastes and withers there.

Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

tiny.ag/yes8wekb  ·  submitted 2005

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way

Mark Twain, Speech in NYC, Jan. 22, 1906

tiny.ag/6klhhgej  ·  submitted 2005

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Mark Twain, Notebooks 1935

tiny.ag/yux5qfmx  ·  submitted 2005

Fate? Ha! That's what you call it when you don't know the name of the person screwing you over!

Lois, Malcolm in the Middle

tiny.ag/b95wvx4j  ·  submitted 2005

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey May 10, 2004

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