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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/ffrhkz8y · submitted 1997
The Golden Rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules.
tiny.ag/donivp2q · submitted 1997
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head.
tiny.ag/up1actjs · submitted 1997
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/pnfrcj5n · submitted 1997
You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
tiny.ag/g6oi3hzo · submitted 1997
We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/bhsju9kv · submitted 1997
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/aa3jqtel · submitted 1997
Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
tiny.ag/rp6yelnf · submitted 1997
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/sshro1au · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
Policy is a guide to the wise and a rule to the fool.
Unknown, (expression used in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/8wyy0jwo · submitted 1997 by Barbara Postman
Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief.
Unknown, (attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/xts9pvd0 · submitted 1997
Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.
Unknown, (from Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/4wuke9ix · submitted 1997
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
tiny.ag/0arre1jp · submitted 1997
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
tiny.ag/nsh95i8e · submitted 1997
People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.
tiny.ag/bmuf1k6g · submitted 1997
People do not resist change -- they resist being changed.
tiny.ag/vdvrew4w · submitted 1997
Pardo's First Postulate: Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
tiny.ag/xhom8dbn · submitted 1997
Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail.
tiny.ag/cdzh2i5q · submitted 1997
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
tiny.ag/hni90jff · submitted 1997
Not everyone born in a stable thinks himself a horse.
tiny.ag/oumhmbbr · submitted 1997
Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.
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