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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/zeuc9zpa · submitted 1997
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
tiny.ag/xjrw4zcp · submitted 1997
While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.
tiny.ag/ubdtlbzz · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.
tiny.ag/wobuqdw1 · submitted 1997
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/eq4zodra · submitted 1997
When they broke open molecules, they found they were filled with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found they were filled with explosions.
tiny.ag/ywjorl1b · submitted 1997
When the government fears the people, we have liberty. When the people fear the government, we have tyranny.
tiny.ag/mdjkyeno · submitted 1997
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Unknown, (Ethiopian proverb), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/jlmjkna4 · submitted 1997
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
tiny.ag/voscxn53 · submitted 1997
When falling in love, some lose their head, others lose their heart.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/idqkjfr5 · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
When elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/pkfmdhte · submitted 1997
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains knowledge, he is an ordinary man.
Unknown, (Zen saying), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/zsldl2jb · submitted 1997
When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/ltngvuik · submitted 1997
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Unknown, (The Talmud), in Work and Recreation
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/xts9pvd0 · submitted 1997
Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.
Unknown, (from Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++), in Success and Failure
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/sshro1au · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
Policy is a guide to the wise and a rule to the fool.
Unknown, (expression used in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/avjgt67o · submitted 1997
Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/0arre1jp · submitted 1997
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
tiny.ag/rcehbv9s · submitted 1997
Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
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