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/shqjzfrt  ·   Fair (26 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

I pointed out to you the stars and the moon, but all you saw was the tip of my finger.

C.S.Saunders

tiny.ag/utnyacor  ·   Fair (20 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

"LOVE" - The juvenile manifestation of the adult emotion, lust.

Roger, I am not a cynic.

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

"We can't ensure success, but we can deserve it."

George Washington

tiny.ag/wjlvk9ea  ·   Fair (25 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Mark Twain

tiny.ag/bv79uz0k  ·   Fair (27 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

"History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, next as a comedy."

George Santayana

tiny.ag/w301svki  ·   Fair (26 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde, from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

tiny.ag/g7k9bida  ·   Fair (21 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby, 1977

tiny.ag/om1tmghb  ·   Fair (27 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

--Eubie Blake, 1979

tiny.ag/5nflytsq  ·   Fair (26 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

--James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son,

tiny.ag/vxeplqpg  ·   Fair (46 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

He who knows everything will know all he will ever know.

Unknown

tiny.ag/atuecmej  ·   Fair (37 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Always strive to make yourself a better person, because it is you who has to live with you every day til eternity.

michael adams

tiny.ag/4i12ehql  ·   Fair (45 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Power concedes nothing without a demand it never has and it never will.

Frederick Douglas

tiny.ag/zf9mwr2o  ·   Fair (54 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

There is no shame in being ignorant, the real shame is in remaining that way.

michael adams

tiny.ag/w7h1upgo  ·   Fair (41 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

tiny.ag/atv1dm8w  ·   Fair (52 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

if these coincidences are coincidental, then why do they seem so contived?

Chris Carter, spoken by: fox mulder, x-flies

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

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

James Galbraith

tiny.ag/ehx4yaag  ·   Fair (39 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

A person will be called upon to account on judgment day for every permissible thing that they might have enjoyed but did not.

Jerusalem Talmud

tiny.ag/nvei74wq  ·   Fair (31 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

In the final analysis, it is all between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

tiny.ag/ohf4kcb3  ·   Fair (39 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

God knows how much you can take. Never give up! The tide will turn. A miracle will happen. There is no hopeless situation until you become a hopeless person.

Robert Schuller

tiny.ag/izpmw4oy  ·   Fair (38 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Ahh, the laser pointer. And to think it only took Man 10,000 years to invent a mechanism for herding cats.

RHJunior

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