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/3kiahj97  ·  submitted 2002

I mistrust systematizers and I avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

F. Nietzsche

tiny.ag/415yqg3d  ·  submitted 2002

The only virtue in being stubborn is that you know exactly what you will be thinking about tomorrow!

Mike Rabinowitz

tiny.ag/9w1vpfnc  ·  submitted 2002

A really modern APHORISM: "When social activists – i.e. outrageous liberal jerks - say that "extremists" are just nutty people, I worry a bit. And here is why. Because to say extremists are crazy is the opposite of saying nutty people are really smart. That is so wrong. And I wish all the really stupid liberal people in the world would recognize this truth and grow up. So there…"

Unknowable

tiny.ag/thbatkx6  ·  submitted 2002

If I wanted to get rid of my neighbors I would just do weird stuff like put shaving cream on my lawn before I mow it.

Brian, Everyday Conversation

tiny.ag/pdyejbm2  ·  submitted 2002

Life is just high school with money.

Unknown

tiny.ag/ukhjcxpm  ·  submitted 2002

I worry a bit when the greatest vice social activists can attribute to someone is "extremism". As if the fervor with which someone believes something were more important than the actual content of what they believed....

RHJunior

tiny.ag/ja7gbdor  ·  submitted 2002

In the modern world everything is in doubt because nothing is above question.

Jefferson Hennessy

tiny.ag/ea1olghm  ·  submitted 2002

True love is a game with no outcome.

Unknown

tiny.ag/pz9nvlky  ·  submitted 2002

Possession is nine tenths of the problem.

John Lennon

tiny.ag/59dkbf2z  ·  submitted 2002

The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Ralph W. Emerson, (for Kenny Boy)

tiny.ag/xq2vr0cq  ·  submitted 2002

Education is another sun to the educated.

Thales

tiny.ag/nhb7lgne  ·  submitted 2002

Man looks before and after and pines for what is not.

Plato

tiny.ag/kc6vcdlj  ·  submitted 2002

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau

tiny.ag/wuownbqd  ·  submitted 2002

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

tiny.ag/m76vhpft  ·  submitted 2002

You cannot argue with a leftist. To them, the very fact you disagree with them is proof of your moral inferiority.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/57auvvgc  ·  submitted 2002

Prove God exists? What proof would you have? Historical records? eyewitness accounts? Material evidence? Scientific argument? These have been presented, and in spades. Yet still you not believe. Angels could trumpet, the sky itself could split asunder, and God Himself could plant one titanic foot on the earth and announce His presence in a voice like the end of the Earth, and you would mutter about blotter acid in your tea and go about your business as before.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/uphbs5ni  ·  submitted 2002

Human beings are absolutely breathtaking in their capacity for denial.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/hnxstive  ·  submitted 2002

There's no such thing as indisputable evidence. That's why there's still a flat earth society.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/i0ofzp45  ·  submitted 2002

They have burned it, banned it, mocked it, attempted to scientifically discredit it, and still, there it is, saying what it does as it has for thousands of years.
Men hate and fear the Bible precisely because they cannot change it, because it refuses to be as mercurial and self-serving as their own momentary ethics-- and because it refuses to go away.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/a8d0rgpt  ·  submitted 2002

Something as complex as human intelligence cannot possibly happen by chance. The first proof we have of the existence of God, is that we are conscious enough to question it.

RHJunior

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