Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
4701–4720 (5628)
tiny.ag/sv1m4pet · submitted 2003
By constructing a defensive wall around you, you become a prisoner.
tiny.ag/rk9htobr · submitted 2003
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
tiny.ag/8yzl2sgj · submitted 2003
Rephrasing Murphy's law: The other queues always go faster, no matter how many times you change queues.
tiny.ag/lyk40umb · submitted 2003
Aphorisms are lurking everywhere; especially near the mellow ends of bottles of Beaujolais.
tiny.ag/wrdz1ql5 · submitted 2003
Gangling, gulping, twitching, flapping, fish blood flowed like rain. "No, my son," the fisherman said. "I don't feel any pain."
tiny.ag/gkui94tw · submitted 2003
Terrorism: Just another link in the endless chain of human violence.
tiny.ag/x2npoen8 · submitted 2003
I only lie to save someone's feelings- especially my own.
tiny.ag/rttgbbmq · submitted 2003
"Strategies are okayed in boardrooms that even a child would say are bound to fail. The problem is, there is never a child in the boardroom."
tiny.ag/dckkfj8t · submitted 2003
If the persons you love don't see you, this doesn't mean you are invisible.
tiny.ag/7dtbi24e · submitted 2003
Last words on the cross: "Dear Father, next time around may I be the Son of Eros?"
tiny.ag/fakpqtq6 · submitted 2003
Politician: Somebody who, for power, prestige or profit, is always ready to rise above principle.
tiny.ag/1ntlfojj · submitted 2003
Great hearts should be patient in misfortune as well as joyful in prosperity.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
tiny.ag/yu7qw1tn · submitted 2003
Three modes of universal justice: good luck, bad luck, and what you deserve. The good news is: your good luck will be good.
tiny.ag/1aqwzp7n · submitted 2003
Twixt friend and friend, the bug creeps in.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
tiny.ag/culgipif · submitted 2003
Well-meaning rebukes are better uttered
with gentleness than asperity.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
tiny.ag/zgnrj5p8 · submitted 2003
People lacking in love think
they are not worth loving.
tiny.ag/wvrgibdr · submitted 2003
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
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