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tiny.ag/kjm5ugma · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
tiny.ag/pizd3ywt · ★★☆☆ Fair (473 ratings) · submitted 1997
I hate quotations.
tiny.ag/gfpih4lb · ★★☆☆ Fair (315 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
tiny.ag/da1k6tun · ★★☆☆ Fair (723 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Stephen
All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.
tiny.ag/gokrtfpu · ★★☆☆ Fair (563 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
tiny.ag/otueqvds · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
tiny.ag/5gcdbjbx · ★★☆☆ Fair (413 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · ★★☆☆ Fair (3008 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/dxbh08ml · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
tiny.ag/hfx4m7bz · ★★☆☆ Fair (555 ratings) · submitted 1998 by David Shorr
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/6jxieopf · ★★☆☆ Fair (466 ratings) · submitted 1997
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
tiny.ag/eoc1jiyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (591 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
tiny.ag/vfmz7cvr · ★★☆☆ Fair (388 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.
tiny.ag/hyedkhd2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (330 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
tiny.ag/qycsaode · ★★☆☆ Fair (1009 ratings) · submitted 1997
When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (1649 ratings) · submitted 1999
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/pbhm4rie · ★★☆☆ Fair (396 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
tiny.ag/t6xaogci · ★★☆☆ Fair (576 ratings) · submitted 1997
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
tiny.ag/qiy9xdhn · ★★☆☆ Fair (1031 ratings) · submitted 1997
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/zwylfryx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1391 ratings) · submitted 1997
