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/jr2m6skb  ·  submitted 2005

Dinosaurs eat man...Women inherit the earth.

Ellie, Jurassic Park

tiny.ag/xft24ge3  ·  submitted 2005

I want kids that love me as much as I hated my mother.

Diane, Happiness

tiny.ag/neaxsqvc  ·  submitted 2005

Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...

David Gridley, Indiantown

tiny.ag/gwv4gkoz  ·  submitted 2005

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

Dave Barry, The Taming of the Screw

tiny.ag/dvhixz30  ·  submitted 2005

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Christine Lavin, Prisoners of their Hairdos

tiny.ag/txdmusrf  ·  submitted 2005

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963

tiny.ag/baweghzo  ·  submitted 2005

Most things in this world don't work, but aspirin do.

Black Fuhrer of Harlem, Mother Night

tiny.ag/wbrnluif  ·  submitted 2005

Now the time has come.
I put two bullets in my gun.
One for me, and one for you.
Oh darling, it will be so beautiful.

Annie Wilkes, Misery

tiny.ag/xachswqr  ·  submitted 2005

A friend will pick you up when you fall. A true friend will take pictures

David Craft

tiny.ag/m7t5fcpk  ·  submitted 2005

Remember those ads for soap that claimed it was "99.44% pure?" Ever say to yourself, "Yeah, but pure WHAT?"

RHJunior

tiny.ag/smxiuvrg  ·  submitted 2005

When historians note that Hitler originally studied to be an artist, but his paintings were mediocre, I get a little uneasy. I mean, what if someday there was another mediocre artist somewhere ... maybe even right here in the USA?

John Alejandro King, The Covert Comic!, www.covertcomic.com

tiny.ag/jichbxaz  ·  submitted 2005

I bet when future generations study the beliefs and customs of our era, they'll shake their collective head in disbelief.

... Just that one gigantic, collective head.

John Alejandro King

tiny.ag/6sgbpfal  ·  submitted 2005

If global warming was outlawed, only outlaws would warm their globes.

John Alejandro King, 'The Covert Comic', (www.covertcomic.com)

tiny.ag/bviosi6z  ·  submitted 2005

A wise man changes his mind as often as he sees reason.

Unknown

tiny.ag/oxgubest  ·  submitted 2005

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone

Unknown

tiny.ag/fr9qdkqv  ·  submitted 2005

The best plan of reconstruction is not destroying before.

Petigò

tiny.ag/2gtkbeaf  ·  submitted 2005

Happy is the man who never sees South Yorkshire

Trevor Wainwright, Trevor Wainwright's Journeys

tiny.ag/l9eyrt0k  ·  submitted 2005

Every enduring religion, political party or country begins with a crime. And every businessman buys respespectability with ill-gotten gains.

Tom Burnett, by me

tiny.ag/vejn0zdp  ·  submitted 2005

Its a short cut, it is meant to be difficult; If it was easy, it would just be the way

Unknown

tiny.ag/8repfb4y  ·  submitted 2005

If the American borders were any less secure, the Mexicans would be selling refried beans to the Canadian Mounties.

RHJunior

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