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/jfxnea19  ·  submitted 2001

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."

Frank Lloyd Wright

tiny.ag/omgvnq9o  ·  submitted 2001

Y'know, you think you've hit the ultimate in freaked-out sh*t, and then the world just comes around and slaps you upside the head with a dead mackeral.....

RHJunior

tiny.ag/t3zf8qkj  ·  submitted 2001

Risk may be the author of potential loss, but he who vigilantly avoids risk will have nothing of worth to lose.

Caleb Gesek

tiny.ag/b6yzarmk  ·  submitted 2001

Shoot for the stars and you will someday fly. Shoot for nothing and watch life pass you by.

Caleb Gesek

tiny.ag/axynpbqd  ·  submitted 2001

Time, a commodity you can never get rid of, you can perpetually waist, and yet a rarity you can never recover.

Caleb Gesek

tiny.ag/2klndimh  ·  submitted 2001

Those who look only to the future will never enjoy it.

Caleb Gesek

tiny.ag/j04obltz  ·  submitted 2001

"Beauty and eloquence are summed up in one word: me."

-C.J. Tuggle

tiny.ag/9yy0vqmx  ·  submitted 2001

"If God lived on earth, people would break his windows."

-Jewish Proverb

tiny.ag/kilt9q6d  ·  submitted 2001

"Nothing is easier than lopping off heads and nothing more difficult than developing ideas."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

tiny.ag/doneuwyk  ·  submitted 2001

Scars are tatoos with better stories

Unknown

tiny.ag/hskjauuf  ·  submitted 2001

"Who would you fear more; a man who kills millions of people, or a man who kills millions of people in his own country?"

Cory Masters, Relating to Stalin and Hilter in WW2

tiny.ag/5ybtaxbo  ·  submitted 2001

Considering that the British gave us Telletubbies and Spice Girls, isnt it a shame John Lennon was the Brit who was shot?

Julianna Bennit

tiny.ag/wo1udjny  ·  submitted 2001

Over specialize and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.

Anymous, "Ghost in the Shell"

tiny.ag/ha0vcpzt  ·  submitted 2001

If at first you dont succed, just give up, there's no point in making a fool of yourself.

Grandma Maycroft

tiny.ag/erau7v5k  ·  submitted 2001

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Homer Simpson

tiny.ag/trep9cim  ·  submitted 2001

A little bit of pain never hurt anyone!

Andrew Lockwood, Offered as a plattitude post-accident

tiny.ag/uf7oxrp8  ·  submitted 2001

"In other American wars, enemy commanders have come to doubt the wisdom of taking on the strength and power of this nation and the resolve of her people. I expect that somewhere, in a cave in Afghanistan, there is a terrorist leader who is, at this moment, considering precisely the same thing."

Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Ltr to US Servicemembers re: bin Laden

tiny.ag/rblwjasv  ·  submitted 2001

I can take away everything you have; you'll find a way to be happy. And you'll cry Thank you. I can give you everything you wish; you'll find a way to be miserable. And you'll cry Please. But either way, I love thee.

Tresabuela., Original.

tiny.ag/oeaqlmdk  ·  submitted 2001

I would rather spend an eternity in Hell than to spend a lifetime standing outside Heaven's gates.

Carlos Herrero, This is my own.

tiny.ag/ugj9uf6y  ·  submitted 2001

Like is like eating an ice cream. When it comes to the crunch, it's still sweet!

Garrahy, taken from speech

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