Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
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tiny.ag/r3gvjlqa · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
tiny.ag/q5s2gnzy · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
tiny.ag/bvtzf17g · ★★☆☆ Fair (1228 ratings) · submitted 1997
Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/gu6tloek · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
tiny.ag/lgolcdhe · ★★☆☆ Fair (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
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/57fvsz6t · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
No good deed goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/kje1nil8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997
Grub first, then ethics.
tiny.ag/co7binat · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
tiny.ag/nsami72o · ★★☆☆ Fair (1208 ratings) · submitted 1997
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
tiny.ag/rts5bix2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1008 ratings) · submitted 1997
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/fcmzdpy1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1997
A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
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/764yzbuo · ★★☆☆ Fair (233 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
tiny.ag/fmchbiz9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (387 ratings) · submitted 1997
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
tiny.ag/7guwnmr1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (879 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
tiny.ag/mcsdq3k5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up "with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got."
tiny.ag/ahfxksue · ★★☆☆ Fair (331 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
tiny.ag/iht7l65u · ★★☆☆ Fair (521 ratings) · submitted 1997
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
tiny.ag/43mefad8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
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