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/z2wjirem  ·  submitted 2003

You may not be as young as you used to be, but at least you're not as old as you're gonna get.

Unknown

tiny.ag/huf5rxcj  ·  submitted 2003

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

tiny.ag/ryhesw0r  ·  submitted 2003

Traditions are paths tread by the feet of others, which merely err around the freeway of pragmatism.

Aleksander I. Grocz

tiny.ag/a0cbqplp  ·  submitted 2003

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by not dying."

Woody Allen

tiny.ag/bgjvnqza  ·  submitted 2003

"We judge others by their actions, but expect others to judge us by our intentions."

Anonymous

tiny.ag/6b0flsli  ·  submitted 2003

"Most humans are incapable of acting in their own self-interest."

"Skylord", MIT Computer Construct, Excerpt from an on-line chat in 1996

tiny.ag/ysfinehz  ·  submitted 2003

Every day in Africa, the lion knows that he has to outrun the swiftest gazelle, or he'll starve, and the gazelle know that he has to outrun the swiftest lion, or he'll perish.

Unknown

tiny.ag/ep06vc19  ·  submitted 2003

In life, beware of the law court. In death, beware of hell.

Unknown

tiny.ag/72t60uaf  ·  submitted 2003

Just because you're hosting the party doesn't mean you have the right to piss in the punch bowl.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/ofaywptb  ·  submitted 2003

Dottage: the age at which one's mind is reduced to a dot.

Dennis Runyen

tiny.ag/9qhwpfmo  ·  submitted 2003

At all possible points, seek a peaceful resolution. But do not forego a militant solution too long-- and when you do choose to respond with force, strike with all the swiftness, power and wrath you can muster. Dash them to flinders utterly. Anything less is not merciful, for it only emboldens your enemy to extend the suffering.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/ln6yuctk  ·  submitted 2003

It is ironic that lying, of all human sins, gets the easiest "pass" from us... seeing that all the evil and misery and suffering in the world can be traced to a lie. Every theft, rape, and murder, every tyranny, every cruelty, every destruction and social blight, requires at some point the services of a liar to proliferate. Apt indeed that the Devil is called the Prince of Lies, because every liar is one of the damned going about doing his infernal father's work.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/neydiucq  ·  submitted 2003

Regrettably, time does not, as we've been told, heal all wounds.

Dennis Runyen

tiny.ag/dseihr8s  ·  submitted 2003

Idiots have two things in common, Their mouths are always loaded & Their brains are always shooting blanks

Pat B.

tiny.ag/dfqkcns1  ·  submitted 2003

If I die in a combat zone/Box me up and ship me home/To hell and back

Tim O'Brien

tiny.ag/a3zsm94f  ·  submitted 2003

One does not in need be possessed of an overabundance of intelligence to reap the fruits of wisdom.

Pete Compo

tiny.ag/aezwjl8s  ·  submitted 2003

I'd rather answer a dumb question now than to fix a dumb problem later.

Unknown, The motto of computer techs everywhere

tiny.ag/we0a7zzc  ·  submitted 2003

A Christian is someone who worships a guy he would cross the street to avoid meeting.

Mark Zero, from his classic, SHARDS

tiny.ag/h4j8nsf6  ·  submitted 2003

Civilization - the triumph of madness over chaos.

Mark Zero, from his classic, SHARDS

tiny.ag/spozmlqw  ·  submitted 2003

Paper money - a broken promise on a worthless writ that boasts the full faith and credit of a bankrupt thief.

Mark Zero, from his classic, SHARDS

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