Aphorisms Galore!

Submissions

These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.

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tiny.ag/ayityp5w  ·  submitted 2004

There are three types of people in life. Those that make things happen, those that saw what happened and those that wondered what the hell happened.

Jim Bash

tiny.ag/nft0dyqn  ·  submitted 2004

We've got both kinds of music, Country and Western.

Unknown, Blues Brothers

tiny.ag/be8o7rll  ·  submitted 2004

A portrait is painted to a romantic ideal rather than a true depiction of the idiosincratic features of the person in question.

Rowan Atkins, As said by Baldrick in the Black Adder s

tiny.ag/lwcynwob  ·  submitted 2004

They say good things come to those that wait, but the things they get are the things left behind by the people who got there first.

Steve Tyler(I think)

tiny.ag/lxjm0g7s  ·  submitted 2004

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends under the couch.

Unknown

tiny.ag/7infulkn  ·  submitted 2004

I read that knowledge is power, and right after that I bench pressed three hundred fifty pounds.

The Covert Comic @ www.covertcomic.com, From 'Who Killed The Covert Comic?'

tiny.ag/vbeowlsg  ·  submitted 2004

I disagree that Voltaire wrote, 'I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- After reading Evelyn Beatrice Hall

The Covert Comic @ www.covertcomic.com, From 'Who Killed The Covert Comic?'

tiny.ag/0dtjf8ey  ·  submitted 2004

I read a quote attributed to the Beatles. What did they do, speak it in unison?

The Covert Comic @ www.covertcomic.com, - From 'Who Killed The Covert Comic?'

tiny.ag/ouyhqpjn  ·  submitted 2004

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

Bryant McGill

tiny.ag/ituzlp7h  ·  submitted 2004

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures, 1990

tiny.ag/erwsupmm  ·  submitted 2004

How could the Romans remember their phone number?

Petigò

tiny.ag/x9fszou8  ·  submitted 2004

You can't please everyone, but you have to at least make an attempt.

Kailei Craft

tiny.ag/0bv8cp5m  ·  submitted 2004

Once you start to think your problems are worse than everybody else's, they are.

Unknown

tiny.ag/tf2raxer  ·  submitted 2004

This morning I was downtown, and I happened to be looking at a building just as it was deliberately imploded.

For a second I thought, 'Whoa, did I do that?'

John Alejandro King, 'The Covert Comic', Notorious CIA researcher and poet

tiny.ag/r1einzso  ·  submitted 2004

The earth below and heaven above. In the middle, we are the ham in the sandwich.

Petigò

tiny.ag/1banl2zg  ·  submitted 2004

How many holes do you have to fill a sack with, for it to weight the most?

Petigò

tiny.ag/v0klr7kh  ·  submitted 2004

I have never seen an ugly smile.

Armand Coallier, A saying I created for my schoolbus

tiny.ag/iusqahwl  ·  submitted 2004

Envy is when you don't want somebody else to have what you say you don't care about not having.

Petigò

tiny.ag/9qct8mkr  ·  submitted 2004

"I love you" doesn't have to be said to be understood.

James Bennett Eades III, an amazing, wonderful man

tiny.ag/slodayzr  ·  submitted 2004

The only way of avoiding mistakes is doing nothing, and even this is not a guarantee.

Petigò

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