Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/jlevctud · ★★☆☆ Fair (45 ratings) · submitted 1997
Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
tiny.ag/ka7fkx9f · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
tiny.ag/5r2sagdx · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
tiny.ag/6wplp1s3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.
tiny.ag/m5vupi74 · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.
tiny.ag/9nbvii3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (39 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't think, just do.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/fwsozshx · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.
tiny.ag/zpsqkb73 · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.
tiny.ag/ndscvllq · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
tiny.ag/piklxjab · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
tiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
tiny.ag/axybc0uz · ★★☆☆ Fair (2972 ratings) · submitted 1997
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
tiny.ag/isf8vo05 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1041 ratings) · submitted 1997
Delay is preferable to error.
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · ★★☆☆ Fair (1204 ratings) · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/pazvp4tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/sr1e2c3y · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
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