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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/g6oi3hzo · submitted 1997
We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation
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/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/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/ajwgbtvf · submitted 1997
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
tiny.ag/f8mrmb30 · submitted 1997
If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
tiny.ag/90upthng · submitted 1999
If you're here, you're alive.
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/ymbukbew · submitted 1997
When a man's wife learns to understand him, she usually stops listening to him.
Unknown, in Men and Women
tiny.ag/y8tf4vup · submitted 1997
Wasting time is an important part of living.
tiny.ag/r8nedjty · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
tiny.ag/hzol4xrd · submitted 1997
Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.
tiny.ag/h54z3wxd · submitted 1997
Voters are people who have the God-given right to decide who will waste their money for them.
Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/tbra32py · submitted 1997
Use soft words and hard arguments.
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