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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/up1actjs · ★★☆☆ Fair (444 ratings) · submitted 1997
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/z91tc0go · ★★☆☆ Fair (430 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
tiny.ag/g6oi3hzo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1079 ratings) · submitted 1997
We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ymbukbew · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997
When a man's wife learns to understand him, she usually stops listening to him.
Unknown, in Men and Women
tiny.ag/h6nrslrd · ★★☆☆ Fair (227 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
tiny.ag/n51jrfp4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1997
When a female has tears in her eyes the one who cannot see is the male.
Unknown, in Men and Women
tiny.ag/qhi9mj1t · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
tiny.ag/undqbo35 · ★★☆☆ Fair (244 ratings) · submitted 1997
Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
tiny.ag/kov3nzmi · ★★☆☆ Fair (209 ratings) · submitted 1997
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
tiny.ag/k41czawu · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
tiny.ag/zm6nq4mh · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
We should forgive our enemies, but only after they've been taken out and shot.
tiny.ag/hzol4xrd · ★★☆☆ Fair (171 ratings) · submitted 1997
Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.
tiny.ag/y8tf4vup · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wasting time is an important part of living.
tiny.ag/r8nedjty · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
tiny.ag/2kf4ndl1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (269 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is menstruation envy.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/h54z3wxd · ★★☆☆ Fair (968 ratings) · submitted 1997
Voters are people who have the God-given right to decide who will waste their money for them.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/tbra32py · ★★☆☆ Fair (306 ratings) · submitted 1997
Use soft words and hard arguments.
tiny.ag/wultb9vd · ★★☆☆ Fair (261 ratings) · submitted 1997
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
tiny.ag/l9jtfiar · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.
tiny.ag/r3bhbgos · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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