Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/dozch5ts · submitted 1997
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
tiny.ag/uhmdmobz · submitted 1997
As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole!
tiny.ag/kgnv53qx · submitted 1997
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ljsjuhkx · submitted 1997
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/shbtdjjo · submitted 1997
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
tiny.ag/pdvztxjj · submitted 1997
You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.
tiny.ag/pgsxbect · submitted 1998
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/u5mb79tw · submitted 1997
Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan, in Success and Failure
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.
tiny.ag/xqe7yfma · submitted 1997
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
tiny.ag/wbhpks76 · submitted 1997
Measure twice because you can only cut once.
tiny.ag/pcn2zosg · submitted 1997
Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
tiny.ag/jaktd8ze · submitted 1997
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
tiny.ag/0raepug8 · submitted 1997
Jones' Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
tiny.ag/xnqzybth · submitted 1997
Johnson's First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.
tiny.ag/pe3wjdh9 · submitted 1997
Jenkinson's Law: It won't work.
tiny.ag/u1iblda0 · submitted 1997
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.
tiny.ag/t2ay3kb5 · submitted 1997
If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.
tiny.ag/ohvcxj98 · submitted 1997
Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.
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