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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/bvnhhkns  ·   Fair (22 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

I have never seen an ugly smile nor an attractive frown.

Armand Coallier, Observing Humans

tiny.ag/75ggdyxb  ·   Fair (22 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

I have never seen an ugly smile nor an attractive frown.

Armand Coallier, Observing Humans

tiny.ag/j6uwtiag  ·   Fair (26 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

We must learn never to give up hope in life, for we are the chosen ones of the location we call existence, our lives a gift of mysterious origin and meaning.

Matthew Madison

tiny.ag/oagnbqw7  ·   Fair (24 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

From pain can come a greater glimpse of truth, and from the these brief moments of light can come an appreciation for the precious moments that make life worth living.

Matthew Madison

tiny.ag/7zdk9kce  ·   Fair (27 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau

tiny.ag/e06dcazk  ·   Fair (35 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

All I know is that my knowledge limits all I know.

Kalman

tiny.ag/lx2eagzp  ·   Fair (25 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

I have complete confidence, but I still try to share it with others.

Kalman

tiny.ag/worwpm6g  ·   Fair (33 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

If I'm a hypocrite, then that's just another side of me.

Kalman

tiny.ag/lqcv4ioz  ·   Fair (21 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Keep your head up, or else you may not get shot at.

Kalman

tiny.ag/p6gnecrj  ·   Fair (23 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

I can only be myself, no matter what you think of me.

Kalman

tiny.ag/xgecmths  ·   Fair (23 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

The man who laughs has not yet heard the news.

Bertolt Brecht

tiny.ag/g4lbtwmd  ·   Fair (32 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

"Paranoia is just knowing all the facts."

William S. Burroughs, Jr.

tiny.ag/sc4msbib  ·   Fair (23 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

"It's only when the tide goes out that
you learn who's been swimming naked."

Warren Buffett, aka the Oracle of Omaha

tiny.ag/kffvug1l  ·   Fair (43 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Cain was the first leftist; seeing his brother enjoy fulfilment that he did not was more than he could bear....

RHJunior

tiny.ag/qbvn7lha  ·   Fair (24 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

"Men, it has been well said, think in
herds; it will be seen that they go mad
in herds, while they only recover their
senses slowly, and one by one."

Charles Mackay, from Extraordinary Popular Delusions

tiny.ag/fzxplx6v  ·   Fair (24 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

My life is a novel. Her life is a collection of short stories.

Cris Vikeng

tiny.ag/u08afpts  ·   Fair (30 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Dating is like sport fishing.

Jillian Nelson, My own

tiny.ag/obfctis0  ·   Fair (22 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Lonliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

Arturo Perez-Reverte, Translated by Margret Jull Costa

tiny.ag/vzqtyjrd  ·   Fair (26 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

The Devil speaks truth much oftner than he's deem'd,
He hath an ignorant audience.

Lord Byron

tiny.ag/cjjbqxk1  ·   Fair (24 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

Anon

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