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/x2npoen8  ·  submitted 2003

I only lie to save someone's feelings- especially my own.

Gary E. Holland

tiny.ag/uosqzlgf  ·  submitted 2003

Death penalty: Killing people by consensus.

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/rttgbbmq  ·  submitted 2003

"Strategies are okayed in boardrooms that even a child would say are bound to fail. The problem is, there is never a child in the boardroom."

- Victor Palmieri

tiny.ag/dckkfj8t  ·  submitted 2003

If the persons you love don't see you, this doesn't mean you are invisible.

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/7dtbi24e  ·  submitted 2003

Last words on the cross: "Dear Father, next time around may I be the Son of Eros?"

Gary E. Holland

tiny.ag/fakpqtq6  ·  submitted 2003

Politician: Somebody who, for power, prestige or profit, is always ready to rise above principle.

Henry Louis Mencken

tiny.ag/1ntlfojj  ·  submitted 2003

Great hearts should be patient in misfortune as well as joyful in prosperity.

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

tiny.ag/e6dsmcxh  ·  submitted 2003

Iraq: Weepings for mass destruction.

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/yu7qw1tn  ·  submitted 2003

Three modes of universal justice: good luck, bad luck, and what you deserve. The good news is: your good luck will be good.

Gary E. Holland

tiny.ag/1aqwzp7n  ·  submitted 2003

Twixt friend and friend, the bug creeps in.

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

tiny.ag/culgipif  ·  submitted 2003

Well-meaning rebukes are better uttered
with gentleness than asperity.

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

tiny.ag/zgnrj5p8  ·  submitted 2003

People lacking in love think
they are not worth loving.

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/wvrgibdr  ·  submitted 2003

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

tiny.ag/cyngjzws  ·  submitted 2003

Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

tiny.ag/yozh92ve  ·  submitted 2003

Be yourself: You can be either mature or immature, but you cannot be Victor Mature.

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/az2vgdsq  ·  submitted 2003

Did someone tell Abraham it would please God if he slit his son's throat? Or did Abraham think of it on his own?

Gary E. Holland

tiny.ag/lpw5yg8j  ·  submitted 2003

Cured of belief in an instant, the belly laughed on for hours.

Gary E. Holland

tiny.ag/1en40mf2  ·  submitted 2003

If you cannot solve a problem, dissolve it.

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/bgzuhyrs  ·  submitted 2003

Sometimes, eternal love is one of the less lasting things.

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/hxtuozvu  ·  submitted 2003

After victory in combat the young veterans celebrate. The older sit alone in the corners and weep.

an old veteran

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