Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
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tiny.ag/apirm627 · submitted 1997
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
tiny.ag/hq8w7xao · submitted 1997
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
tiny.ag/dfwohelg · submitted 1997
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
tiny.ag/wqt4ciab · submitted 1997
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
tiny.ag/np9dvtka · submitted 1997
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
tiny.ag/dxokyfu8 · submitted 1997
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
tiny.ag/vinogpxg · submitted 1997
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
tiny.ag/xhg05ovb · submitted 1997
I never know how much of what I say is true.
tiny.ag/rxylykkp · submitted 1997
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
tiny.ag/crm6g7ll · submitted 1997
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
tiny.ag/f9zmepch · submitted 1997
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
tiny.ag/r3gvjlqa · submitted 1997
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
tiny.ag/q5s2gnzy · submitted 1997
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
tiny.ag/bx0vlces · submitted 1997
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/l9caw6tv · submitted 1997
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
tiny.ag/1make2qd · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/9xelzoym · submitted 1997
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think, and a docudrama with ugly actors for those who film docudramas.
tiny.ag/tacuwmyh · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor.
tiny.ag/v128alif · submitted 1997
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king... and the one-eyed man with the high heels and the feather boa is queen.
tiny.ag/p2zj718l · submitted 1997
The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...
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