Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
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tiny.ag/jov0ptmn · submitted 2002
be patient at all times and aggresive at the right time
tiny.ag/z0dxlupu · submitted 2002
The headline reads, "Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics." This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, "Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, "Stop me before I prescribe again."
tiny.ag/lpv9thjp · submitted 2002
If antidepressant drugs are effective, why don't they work for psychiatrists? Year after year, psychiatrists commit suicide at a higher rate than the general population. Are we to believe that they don't take their own drugs, or that the drugs don't have the benefits attributed to them?
Nicolas Martin, website, American Iatrogenic Association
tiny.ag/6ealcnkd · submitted 2002
If you want to motivate someone who already has confidence tell them they canÂ’t do it. Then sit back and watch as they do it anyways, just to spite you.
tiny.ag/nz70cmne · submitted 2002
I could guide you into depravity but I'm not sure I could lead either of us back out.
Frank O'Hara, Three Poems
tiny.ag/l08c1niq · submitted 2002
Naming things is only the intention to make things.
Frank O'Hara, Memorial Day 1950
tiny.ag/qeibrjgu · submitted 2002
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
tiny.ag/gqa6rbln · submitted 2002
To be great at what you do, make it a way of life.
tiny.ag/urijbd4s · submitted 2002
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
tiny.ag/nr1xbpw4 · submitted 2002
You took me for a ride, so what; you paid for it.
Bijay Acharya, my own statement.
tiny.ag/cxzwbih7 · submitted 2002
Morally decayed people despise "overly simple" answers... they are creatures who love to hide their immorality in byzantine complexity. If someone complains that an answer you give to a moral question is "too simple", rest assured, they have something they want to hide in the small print.
tiny.ag/wpaqxbii · submitted 2002
"Simple" is not the same thing as "easy". Some of the simplest things in the world to do-- like "the right thing" -- are also the hardest.
tiny.ag/gbbfkppn · submitted 2002
Formerly We Suffered From Crimes,
Now We Suffer From Laws (Tacitus)
Formerly We Suffered From Criminals,
Now We Suffer From Lawyers (Not Tacitus)
tiny.ag/dgygcr6l · submitted 2002
All random acts of kindness will be avenged
tiny.ag/yxmwi6ot · submitted 2002
Few Things Are More Powerful Than A Large Gathering Of Stupid People
tiny.ag/ggixfsms · submitted 2002
I drink to make other people seem more clever... I drink a lot !!!
I don't know, I heard someone say it
tiny.ag/hcifcapb · submitted 2002
Use peace where you can, and the sword where you must.
tiny.ag/mqvjbda8 · submitted 2002
Woe unto the people who cling to pacifism in the face of evil, who will not fight no matter how righteous the cause. For, by God, there are far worse things in this world than war!
tiny.ag/pivxdfbz · submitted 2002
But we read, and usually we believe; good, bad, or indifferent, any string of English words holds
our attention as if it came from Prospero himself.
J. D. Salinger, Seymour: an Introduction
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