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tiny.ag/i3egysnq  ·  submitted 1997

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

Unknown, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/5ce9bwks  ·  submitted 1997

Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/hpw0adig  ·  submitted 1997

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/k5imoxc2  ·  submitted 1997

Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

tiny.ag/w3vp1iki  ·  submitted 1997

Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty

tiny.ag/xe17luio  ·  submitted 1997

My hands are free, but my mind hesitates.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/ejnzrzf3  ·  submitted 1997

My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!

Unknown, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/c8lfkzap  ·  submitted 1997

My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she says.

Unknown, in Men and Women

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.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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/cercjjq0  ·  submitted 1997

Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure out what you're up to.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/mefigsvw  ·  submitted 1997

Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.

Unknown, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/wlmqelpi  ·  submitted 1997

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/siw5bfv8  ·  submitted 1997

Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.

Unknown, (old family saying from Ireland), in Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/ngzfgtnp  ·  submitted 1997

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Unknown, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/4hfen8mj  ·  submitted 1997

Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/x9edjshw  ·  submitted 1997

Love will make you forget time, and time will make you forget love.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/id0fuogm  ·  submitted 1997

Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence.

Unknown, (Chinese proverb), in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/uc5f23qi  ·  submitted 1997

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue