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/g3szhyrn  ·  submitted 2002

Please excuse me, I feel a fit of sobriety and reason setting in on me, and must go take my medication....

Dave Matthews, Learning from the Masters

tiny.ag/mujqs2yq  ·  submitted 2002

"If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the most lively."

Herman Melville, from "The Confidence Man"

tiny.ag/rir4shzl  ·  submitted 2002

"He who hates vice, hates humanity"

Thrasea, via Melville's "Confidence Man"

tiny.ag/cn6w8k9d  ·  submitted 2002

"I once thought the world revolved around the sun, but then I grew older and wiser, and realized it revolved around me."

Travis Buroker

tiny.ag/jjhqipys  ·  submitted 2002

You must have an open mind to realize that you do not have an open mind

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/omqzuel3  ·  submitted 2002

You can run, You can hide,But one day i'll stand right in front of you, no more Run, no more Hide, just You and Me,a Fight for those who wants to be Free

One

tiny.ag/brlsbplx  ·  submitted 2002

To see clearly the closest things, go far away and close your eyes.

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/isfky0rx  ·  submitted 2002

Everyone has a right to think I'm an idiot. Just as everyone has a right to think I'm a genius.

Jared P. Staab

tiny.ag/yc214hji  ·  submitted 2002

People tend to ascribe their successes to their own virtues and their failures to other's faults

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/wwsz5xsb  ·  submitted 2002

Believe you can get the dream, otherwise it is just a wish.

Unknown

tiny.ag/sus6jeof  ·  submitted 2002

"There are two kinds of people in this world: sick bastards, and closet sick bastards"

Darrell La Montre, Darrell's Book of Aphorisms

tiny.ag/odas6ap8  ·  submitted 2002

"When you fail to recognize an intelligent mind, you succeed in revealing the absence of one"

Darrell La Montre, Darrell's Book of Aphorisms

tiny.ag/rbhvqlfc  ·  submitted 2002

People only have to be themselves to be monsters.

Greg Hollingshead, from 'The Roaring Girl'

tiny.ag/oxpguz97  ·  submitted 2002

In chess, only the white player has the right to make the fist move... Racism?

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/zodivabm  ·  submitted 2002

I want to weep every time I recall that in '92 the American people willingly elected a man whom they could not trust alone with either their daughters or their silverware...

RHJunior

tiny.ag/iaufqwtn  ·  submitted 2002

Man is an excellent exception to Darwin's
Laws; he's not fit for anything but he still survives.

old one, old one

tiny.ag/o2tuxnwy  ·  submitted 2002

People who suffer from hunger do not ask questions about what reality is.

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/kqzolmat  ·  submitted 2002

There is nothing in the universe more arrogant, more petulant, more self-righteous than a teenager... and liberals are nothing more than teenagers trapped in adult bodies.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/qntopio9  ·  submitted 2002

The infinite is where parallel lines meet and politicians agree.

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/mahrlpf1  ·  submitted 2002

After 35 years of hard work I have managed to become a child prodigy.

M.A. Fiol

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