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/vmax6cyj  ·  submitted 2005

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story

tiny.ag/bnajkbod  ·  submitted 2005

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devil and the Good Lord

tiny.ag/qwjig9y6  ·  submitted 2005

There's a certain shabby nobility in failing all by myself.

Jamie Conway, Bright Lights, Big City

tiny.ag/hvncmcvn  ·  submitted 2005

We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964

tiny.ag/ko06pr9h  ·  submitted 2005

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

James Bond, Tomorrow Never Dies

tiny.ag/3hpogpsm  ·  submitted 2005

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude

tiny.ag/r91uudii  ·  submitted 2005

I've read about foreign policy and studied, I now know the number of continents.

George Wallace, 1968 presidential campaign

tiny.ag/tstn4aiy  ·  submitted 2005

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

George Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

tiny.ag/hocxnzh5  ·  submitted 2005

He knows nothing; He thinks he knows everything. That clearly points to a career in politics.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) Act III

tiny.ag/jr2m6skb  ·  submitted 2005

Dinosaurs eat man...Women inherit the earth.

Ellie, Jurassic Park

tiny.ag/xft24ge3  ·  submitted 2005

I want kids that love me as much as I hated my mother.

Diane, Happiness

tiny.ag/neaxsqvc  ·  submitted 2005

Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...

David Gridley, Indiantown

tiny.ag/gwv4gkoz  ·  submitted 2005

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

Dave Barry, The Taming of the Screw

tiny.ag/dvhixz30  ·  submitted 2005

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Christine Lavin, Prisoners of their Hairdos

tiny.ag/txdmusrf  ·  submitted 2005

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963

tiny.ag/baweghzo  ·  submitted 2005

Most things in this world don't work, but aspirin do.

Black Fuhrer of Harlem, Mother Night

tiny.ag/wbrnluif  ·  submitted 2005

Now the time has come.
I put two bullets in my gun.
One for me, and one for you.
Oh darling, it will be so beautiful.

Annie Wilkes, Misery

tiny.ag/xachswqr  ·  submitted 2005

A friend will pick you up when you fall. A true friend will take pictures

David Craft

tiny.ag/m7t5fcpk  ·  submitted 2005

Remember those ads for soap that claimed it was "99.44% pure?" Ever say to yourself, "Yeah, but pure WHAT?"

RHJunior

tiny.ag/smxiuvrg  ·  submitted 2005

When historians note that Hitler originally studied to be an artist, but his paintings were mediocre, I get a little uneasy. I mean, what if someday there was another mediocre artist somewhere ... maybe even right here in the USA?

John Alejandro King, The Covert Comic!, www.covertcomic.com

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