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tiny.ag/rxe07t5e · submitted 1997
Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
tiny.ag/2xwphyb8 · submitted 1997
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
tiny.ag/fsnkyl1j · submitted 1997
To generalize is to be an idiot.
tiny.ag/pu94ynqw · submitted 1997
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
tiny.ag/kjm5ugma · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
tiny.ag/f6aon4ji · submitted 1998
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/zhi7upjz · submitted 1997
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
tiny.ag/mtktl96r · submitted 1997
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
tiny.ag/cgjakfr4 · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
tiny.ag/vsuzg5uw · submitted 1997
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
tiny.ag/ieyckbys · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
tiny.ag/kygnp58l · submitted 1997
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
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/b3ohbca1 · 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 · 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/1txkpoby · submitted 1997
Were there no women, men might live like gods.