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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
101–120 (422)
tiny.ag/f1l2esy8 · submitted 1997
Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.
tiny.ag/w4srf1nw · submitted 1997
The world is governed more by appearance than realities, so it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as it is to know it.
tiny.ag/2upsgaxe · submitted 1997
The way to make a small fortune in the commodities market is to start with a large fortune.
tiny.ag/d0mk6ixb · submitted 1997
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
tiny.ag/juykxd68 · submitted 1997
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/eoiuzgcy · submitted 1997
The surest way of having something done is to forbid your kids to do it.
tiny.ag/nbrpkw6o · submitted 1997
The surest sign that a man is in love is when he divorces his wife.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/tp4xrqcg · submitted 1997
There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects.
tiny.ag/p0z9jdbr · submitted 1997
Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
tiny.ag/xok5uj1y · submitted 1997
She's the kind of woman you could fall madly in bed with.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/qgiakofl · submitted 1999 by Johan
Sharks mainly attack when your're wet.
tiny.ag/tr9cqzsg · submitted 1997
Sex is what women have and men want.
Unknown, in Men and Women
tiny.ag/cciynr4l · submitted 1997
Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.
tiny.ag/py1kf0oz · submitted 1997
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
tiny.ag/jgcbbn8p · submitted 1997
Revenge is sleeping with your enemy's wife. Sweet revenge is the realization that she's a lousy lay.
tiny.ag/kqsn5x9k · submitted 1997
Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get another chance later on.
tiny.ag/jb6usc1h · submitted 1997
Reach for the moon and if you miss at least you will land among the stars.
tiny.ag/4wuke9ix · submitted 1997
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
tiny.ag/8wyy0jwo · submitted 1997 by Barbara Postman
Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief.
Unknown, (attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/xts9pvd0 · submitted 1997
Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.
Unknown, (from Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++), in Success and Failure
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