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/3hupv0ts  ·   Fair (23 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

tiny.ag/gqa6rbln  ·   Fair (21 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

To be great at what you do, make it a way of life.

Michael Taylor

tiny.ag/urijbd4s  ·   Fair (25 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

Scott Hamilton

tiny.ag/nr1xbpw4  ·   Fair (19 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

You took me for a ride, so what; you paid for it.

Bijay Acharya, my own statement.

tiny.ag/cxzwbih7  ·   Fair (21 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Morally decayed people despise "overly simple" answers... they are creatures who love to hide their immorality in byzantine complexity. If someone complains that an answer you give to a moral question is "too simple", rest assured, they have something they want to hide in the small print.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/wpaqxbii  ·   Fair (28 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

"Simple" is not the same thing as "easy". Some of the simplest things in the world to do-- like "the right thing" -- are also the hardest.

RHJunior

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

Formerly We Suffered From Crimes,
Now We Suffer From Laws (Tacitus)

Formerly We Suffered From Criminals,
Now We Suffer From Lawyers (Not Tacitus)

Author: Author: A.H. Spivak & Other

tiny.ag/dgygcr6l  ·   Fair (26 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

All random acts of kindness will be avenged

A. H. Spivak

tiny.ag/yxmwi6ot  ·   Fair (29 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Few Things Are More Powerful Than A Large Gathering Of Stupid People

Seen on a bumpersticker near Baltimore,

tiny.ag/ggixfsms  ·   Fair (28 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

I drink to make other people seem more clever... I drink a lot !!!

I don't know, I heard someone say it

tiny.ag/hcifcapb  ·   Fair (19 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Use peace where you can, and the sword where you must.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/mqvjbda8  ·   Fair (30 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Woe unto the people who cling to pacifism in the face of evil, who will not fight no matter how righteous the cause. For, by God, there are far worse things in this world than war!

RHJunior(a paraphrase of another)

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

But we read, and usually we believe; good, bad, or indifferent, any string of English words holds
our attention as if it came from Prospero himself.

J. D. Salinger, Seymour: an Introduction

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

I'll champion indiscrimination till doomsday, on the ground that it leads to health and a kind of very real, enviable happiness.

J. D. Salinger, - Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters

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

You're either in denial with us, or in reality all by yourself

RS Naraval, Stated in a sales meeting, 1996

tiny.ag/bmgda1tk  ·   Fair (31 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

Life levels all men, Death ....?

George Bernard Shaw, Wish someone could fill in the rest .

tiny.ag/y6fvlwgo  ·   Fair (27 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

Daughter of a control freak

tiny.ag/fvm9al2z  ·   Fair (33 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

"True love is when you adore someone because of his/her faults instead of in spite of them."

Emily Blosser, a fit of intellectual conversation...

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

Make the world a better place. Shoot a bohemian.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/ndn5awz8  ·   Fair (29 ratings)  ·  submitted 2002

It's a measure of pop-culture hypocrisy that it is still criminal to say "F**K" on national television-- yet perfectly permissible to DO it onscreen at every opportunity.

RHJunior

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