Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
4801–4820 (5628)
tiny.ag/4qujcax3 · submitted 2003
As a general rule, don't solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.
Darrell R. Goffinet, Horror Movie Character's Survival Guide
tiny.ag/iwugapxv · submitted 2003
Don't be sad because roses have thorns, be happy because thorns have roses.
Unknown, Fiorenza family saying
tiny.ag/g1a2kecp · submitted 2003
Life sucks, S#!t happens, and the download timer is always lying.
tiny.ag/odwebqmu · submitted 2003
"The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes longer"
tiny.ag/k0ucvqhm · submitted 2003
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
tiny.ag/lcwrxay4 · submitted 2003
When you find that they are superior to us in any field, remember that their superiority is inferior to ours.
James Thurber, from Lances & Lanterns
tiny.ag/nr65d7vc · submitted 2003
You are seeking to distort our objectives by exposing them to the scrutiny of the unfairest of all bourgeouis virtues, namely truth.
James Thurber, from Lances & Lanterns
tiny.ag/1bx53z7m · submitted 2003
Calculated Risk, then, goes like this: 'We have every hope and assurance that the plan will be successful, but if it doesn't work we knew all the time it wouldn't , and said so.'
James Thurber, from Lances & Lanterns
tiny.ag/yfrz81ak · submitted 2003
So much has been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
James Thurber, from Lances & Lanterns
tiny.ag/t07rq5va · submitted 2003
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.
William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General
tiny.ag/hc8radgw · submitted 2003
Longing to be someone, in a world which contstantly reminds you that you are nothing
tiny.ag/9jfxklbs · submitted 2003
Any 'scholar' who would say that fantasy is easier to create than "real world" fiction is a buffoon who would insist that a unicycle is easier to ride than a bicycle because it has one less wheel.
RHJunior, In response to an insulting critique
tiny.ag/9vot8pgu · submitted 2003
Knowledge without direction is a ship without a sail.
Scott M. Stratton, Written as a dedication to a sibling.
tiny.ag/z2wjirem · submitted 2003
You may not be as young as you used to be, but at least you're not as old as you're gonna get.
tiny.ag/huf5rxcj · submitted 2003
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
tiny.ag/ryhesw0r · submitted 2003
Traditions are paths tread by the feet of others, which merely err around the freeway of pragmatism.
tiny.ag/a0cbqplp · submitted 2003
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by not dying."
tiny.ag/bgjvnqza · submitted 2003
"We judge others by their actions, but expect others to judge us by our intentions."
tiny.ag/6b0flsli · submitted 2003
"Most humans are incapable of acting in their own self-interest."
"Skylord", MIT Computer Construct, Excerpt from an on-line chat in 1996
tiny.ag/ysfinehz · submitted 2003
Every day in Africa, the lion knows that he has to outrun the swiftest gazelle, or he'll starve, and the gazelle know that he has to outrun the swiftest lion, or he'll perish.
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