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tiny.ag/bmdpgrs0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1377 ratings) · submitted 1997
Let's have some new clichés.
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/uz9atcqm · ★★☆☆ Fair (278 ratings) · submitted 1997
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
tiny.ag/jx4okg6p · ★★☆☆ Fair (1050 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Michael A. Loduha
When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.
Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (558 ratings) · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
tiny.ag/wtukmszr · ★★☆☆ Fair (1186 ratings) · submitted 1997
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
tiny.ag/m6lj8yot · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · ★★☆☆ Fair (407 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/kge2ejcq · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
tiny.ag/qh2wpltu · ★★☆☆ Fair (384 ratings) · submitted 1997
All mankind loves a lover.
tiny.ag/hoklinq4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (447 ratings) · submitted 1997
Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.
tiny.ag/w4s36qc2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (502 ratings) · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
tiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1998
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · ★★☆☆ Fair (810 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/vfmz7cvr · ★★☆☆ Fair (388 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.
tiny.ag/cz34szjm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1108 ratings) · submitted 1997
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/bpcdcqq7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (553 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hitch your wagon to a star.
tiny.ag/bqie1hj5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (651 ratings) · submitted 1998
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
tiny.ag/otueqvds · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
tiny.ag/kwzypjqf · ★★☆☆ Fair (475 ratings) · submitted 1997
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.