Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
4741–4760 (5310)
tiny.ag/pb1urmx8 · submitted 2002
If you live long enough, the future will catch up with you.
tiny.ag/pvgi4ozd · submitted 2002
"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."
tiny.ag/uyrn7lat · submitted 2002
I think of the world as a game; if you don't play it, you can't win.
tiny.ag/bhgelouv · submitted 2002
Ubiquity is everywhere!
Stan Sears, "The Little Green Book" personal journal
tiny.ag/akwce691 · submitted 2002
I have learned by experience that learning is preferable to experience.
tiny.ag/to6frxnh · submitted 2002
Few have learned that there is virtue in the unexpressed thought.
tiny.ag/vnl2wfgn · submitted 2002
Most people want the libery of opinion without the labor of thought.
John F. Kennedy, Authorship alleged
tiny.ag/qft0oawr · submitted 2002
Any theory that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.
tiny.ag/xugrqslk · submitted 2002
Character is coming to know the right from the wrong, choosing to do the right rather than the wrong, then actually doing the right under temptation to do the wrong.
tiny.ag/24ojak9z · submitted 2002
Time is only Nature's way of insuring that EVERYTHING doesn't happen at once.
tiny.ag/mmnirsv9 · submitted 2002
Do not waste your sympathy on those who are less fortunate than you; One should only feel sorry for the rich and chronically gifted.
tiny.ag/zwus5mng · submitted 2002
Disect your soul with every sentence; Write to understand yourself and people will understand your writing.
Everett Sizemore, May not be EXACTLY an aphorism
tiny.ag/s3cezgki · submitted 2002
"Our first purpose in life is to be as artificial as possible, and our second has not yet been discovered."
tiny.ag/iuq12zjt · submitted 2002
Anonymous and Unknown were the greatest two philosiphers who ever lived.
Unknown, heard it on radio
tiny.ag/au0rs1kw · submitted 2002
If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the
corridor in the other direction.
tiny.ag/f1vvxqrx · submitted 2002
To move with words in a way that transcends physical ability is truly a gift—a novelty to be admired.
tiny.ag/j5spaknm · submitted 2002
God tolerates the intolerable; he is irresponsible and inconsistent, he is not a gentleman.
Arturo Perez-Reverte, Translated by Margret Jull Costa
tiny.ag/7ofq6xvv · submitted 2002
Even with a lot of pracice, you'll never be perfect"
tiny.ag/afxerglz · submitted 2002
When man has reached the wisdom that ”The mystery of Life itself is amoral”, - then the reverence disappears, and he can, in all his physical lack of power, grip the mystery by the neck and shake it like a glove.
Peter Wessel Zapffe, About the tragic
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