Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/0csjlftm · submitted 2011 by peter
Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.
tiny.ag/5wea9qlk · submitted 1997
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
tiny.ag/6wwft1cd · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
tiny.ag/cwprmiyl · submitted 1997
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
tiny.ag/ajoczguy · submitted 1997
Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (the Susie Derkins character), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/vpdlcnc4 · submitted 1997
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.
tiny.ag/m3n54rvj · submitted 1997
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
tiny.ag/kzayik2y · submitted 1997
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
tiny.ag/ghr75dcd · submitted 1997
All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
tiny.ag/6ksjcdo8 · submitted 1997
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
tiny.ag/s2pjkz1e · submitted 1997
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yxd6qmth · submitted 1997
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
tiny.ag/xajujcev · submitted 1997
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
tiny.ag/1kqijph2 · submitted 1997
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
tiny.ag/kfrp7mf8 · submitted 1997
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
tiny.ag/uetklpkx · submitted 1997
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power of the greatest obstacle.
tiny.ag/30roecxw · submitted 1997
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
tiny.ag/cgb5omnm · submitted 1997
They are able because they think they are able.
tiny.ag/n3oab9iu · submitted 1997
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
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