Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
4701–4720 (6006)
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
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?"
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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