Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/s4bygqtn · submitted 1997
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
tiny.ag/dvzdavyb · submitted 1997
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
tiny.ag/jlevctud · submitted 1997
Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
tiny.ag/ka7fkx9f · submitted 1997
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
tiny.ag/5r2sagdx · submitted 1997
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
tiny.ag/6wplp1s3 · submitted 1997
We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.
tiny.ag/m5vupi74 · submitted 1997
When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.
tiny.ag/9nbvii3g · submitted 1997
Don't think, just do.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/fwsozshx · submitted 1997
If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.
tiny.ag/zpsqkb73 · submitted 1997
The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.
tiny.ag/ndscvllq · submitted 1997
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
tiny.ag/piklxjab · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
tiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
tiny.ag/axybc0uz · submitted 1997
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
tiny.ag/lpeqizys · submitted 1997
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
tiny.ag/wk0s75et · submitted 1997
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened, it won't last.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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