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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/lc1buagj · submitted 1997
You cannot produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women.
tiny.ag/8kw5laiw · submitted 1997
You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.
tiny.ag/ugcdh8oe · submitted 1997
You may only have two of the three choices: (1) Enjoy your job. (2)Work within the law. (3)Make lots of money.
tiny.ag/gelcd01a · submitted 1997
You should emulate your heroes, but don't carry it too far. Especially if they are dead.
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/zoq7mjnx · submitted 1997
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
tiny.ag/wultb9vd · submitted 1997
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
tiny.ag/renqzacv · submitted 1997
You're a genius if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning is electricity -- but you're an idiot if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning can kill you.
Unknown, (from Mad Magazine), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ovsgddqq · submitted 1997
Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
tiny.ag/yjcobkfn · submitted 1997
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
tiny.ag/6bpzcbnv · submitted 1997
Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
tiny.ag/nqmdzsyl · submitted 1997
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
tiny.ag/u0wakq2d · submitted 1997
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Unknown, in Men and Women
tiny.ag/as0knvco · submitted 1997
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
tiny.ag/ncguuawn · submitted 1997
Never ask the barber if you need a haircut.
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