Aphorisms Galore!

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These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.

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tiny.ag/zc20er3b  ·  submitted 2002

In a democracy, sound statesmanship can never withstand a determined effort to incite the public.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/cx6fh79t  ·  submitted 2002

"Don't eat anything with a face?" Fine. I'll abide by that-- as soon as everything with a face promises to not eat me.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/g6ywutk5  ·  submitted 2002

Human misery isn't caused by chance, fate, or the Poverty Fairy. It's caused
by humans. Always, by humans-- powerful humans who exercise total control,
and who are answerable to noone.....

RHJunior

tiny.ag/jemz6lgh  ·  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/7lgyxu4o  ·  submitted 2002

In the scientific world, you can obstruct progress as long as you like, without losing 'face', but you take your life in your hands when you try to help progress along...

RHJunior

tiny.ag/parj1bwo  ·  submitted 2002

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

L.R. Powell

tiny.ag/pxemwk0w  ·  submitted 2002

'Phobia' is the new slap-down word of the 21st century. All you do is have to say someone is fill-in-the-blank phobic, and you establish the presumption that they need counseling and enlightenment-- in other words, that they're crazy and need a shrink.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/jnrgw3fz  ·  submitted 2002

Should we assume that the opposite
of falling in love is rising in hate?

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/eviuogh2  ·  submitted 2002

Why does English language suggest that a wo-man is a type of man?

M.A. Fiol

tiny.ag/dslfubtv  ·  submitted 2002

You can sleep in your car, but you can't drive your house.

Tommy Leydecker, 1977

tiny.ag/fgytbipw  ·  submitted 2002

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H.G. Wells

tiny.ag/kgleh16j  ·  submitted 2002

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

tiny.ag/u3j4iq2t  ·  submitted 2002

Men are designed for short, nasty, brutal lives. Women are designed for long, miserable ones.

Dr. Estelle Ramey

tiny.ag/85e1tphg  ·  submitted 2002

Politics, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

tiny.ag/afnkjh9o  ·  submitted 2002

A hen is just an egg's way of making more eggs.

Samuel Butler, English Poet & philosopher

tiny.ag/ba8ign5z  ·  submitted 2002

True tragedy occurs not when good battles evil, but when one good battles another.

Friedrich Hegel, 19th Century Philosopher

tiny.ag/g85ycnq2  ·  submitted 2002

All law legislates morality. The only real question is whose morality shall be legislated...

Unknown

tiny.ag/8k6ekozu  ·  submitted 2002

People accuse Christians of "shoving their religion down people's throats." That must be quite some feat, seeing as you can't even get most Christians to listen to a sermon without falling asleep....

RHJunior

tiny.ag/wbugeomv  ·  submitted 2002

"Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies."

F.M. Cornford, British scholar

tiny.ag/b6fie0y7  ·  submitted 2002

Always watch out for the squeaky wheel.

Adam "Finley" King

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