Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/ckd9cv6r · ★★☆☆ Fair (16 ratings) · submitted 1997
After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.
tiny.ag/oic7hxlc · ★★☆☆ Fair (28 ratings) · submitted 1997
After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
tiny.ag/lv1mbo3c · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
tiny.ag/hwk0yobb · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/dhkq0tg9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (27 ratings) · submitted 1997
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
tiny.ag/abk7huzh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1236 ratings) · submitted 1997
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
tiny.ag/hcgfyxv9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
A .44 magnum beats four aces.
tiny.ag/hjgpjdl6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (39 ratings) · submitted 1997
A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn.
tiny.ag/iuvg5od2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project will take only twice as long.
tiny.ag/27fahwgf · ★★☆☆ Fair (29 ratings) · submitted 1997
A computer can make as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working for 20 years.
tiny.ag/ow0faywn · ★★☆☆ Fair (15 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there.
tiny.ag/6ldwnwhf · ★★☆☆ Fair (14 ratings) · submitted 1997
A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
tiny.ag/8aevknh4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (877 ratings) · submitted 1999
A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.
tiny.ag/qkzfb5u9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (780 ratings) · submitted 1997
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I see things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part I, Act I (1921), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/a5rzjxd3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
Where there is no vision, there is no achievment.
tiny.ag/1dmiuqr0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (67 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who never acheive happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep,they are thinking about what to complain about tommorrow.
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