Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/5wea9qlk · submitted 1997
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
tiny.ag/6wwft1cd · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
tiny.ag/cwprmiyl · submitted 1997
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
tiny.ag/ajoczguy · submitted 1997
Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (the Susie Derkins character), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/vpdlcnc4 · submitted 1997
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.
tiny.ag/m3n54rvj · submitted 1997
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
tiny.ag/oic7hxlc · submitted 1997
After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
tiny.ag/h5blv72l · submitted 1997
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
tiny.ag/7kxpl9yw · submitted 1997
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
tiny.ag/6ksjcdo8 · submitted 1997
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
tiny.ag/wb5d0s4b · submitted 1997
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
tiny.ag/dhkq0tg9 · submitted 1997
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
tiny.ag/hwk0yobb · 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/lv1mbo3c · 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/kzayik2y · submitted 1997
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
tiny.ag/ckd9cv6r · submitted 1997
After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/cgb5omnm · submitted 1997
They are able because they think they are able.
tiny.ag/30roecxw · submitted 1997
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
tiny.ag/6nolsedp · submitted 1997
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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