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tiny.ag/poggndv0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (2925 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
tiny.ag/mtktl96r · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
tiny.ag/toiqhdlg · ★★☆☆ Fair (405 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
tiny.ag/w4pngtxm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1364 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Ron Leemans
Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.
tiny.ag/odq1svy5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (368 ratings) · submitted 1997
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
tiny.ag/8d5pktgj · ★★☆☆ Fair (491 ratings) · submitted 1997
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
Dyer, Dyer's Law, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/tmupilkz · ★★☆☆ Fair (504 ratings) · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
tiny.ag/frswba1z · ★★☆☆ Fair (470 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
tiny.ag/dozch5ts · ★★☆☆ Fair (611 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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/bpcdcqq7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (553 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hitch your wagon to a star.
tiny.ag/x06lwkz4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (555 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
tiny.ag/ocxoq7dr · ★★☆☆ Fair (516 ratings) · submitted 1997
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
tiny.ag/04lm8ot1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (290 ratings) · submitted 1997
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
tiny.ag/9whxy8s7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (549 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
tiny.ag/7graufwl · ★★☆☆ Fair (1408 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
tiny.ag/lmbiznpc · ★★☆☆ Fair (371 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's not over until it's over.
tiny.ag/tq4jumf6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (409 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/ry72cat0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.