Front Page
Aphorisms Galore! lets you Feed Your Wit by browsing, searching, submitting, and discussing aphorisms and witty sayings by famous and not-so-famous people.
Welcome! The computer thought you might be interested in these aphorisms today, taking into account things like their recent popularities and how new they are to the collection:
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/y7qkjsrf · submitted 1997
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
tiny.ag/bmdpgrs0 · submitted 1997
Let's have some new clichés.
tiny.ag/tq4jumf6 · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/if7zb5ls · submitted 1997
Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
tiny.ag/ultj3i4v · submitted 1997
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
tiny.ag/950guyxd · submitted 1997
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
tiny.ag/pizd3ywt · submitted 1997
I hate quotations.
tiny.ag/zpsqkb73 · submitted 1997
The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.
tiny.ag/hfx4m7bz · submitted 1998 by David Shorr
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/czhkruer · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
tiny.ag/zhi7upjz · submitted 1997
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
tiny.ag/0spygbpd · submitted 1997
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/vmqykh2c · submitted 1997
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/yamidgsg · submitted 1999
Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.
tiny.ag/8d5pktgj · submitted 1997
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
Dyer, Dyer's Law, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/9kdycunx · submitted 1997
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.
Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.