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tiny.ag/ooxlc4p0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (199 ratings) · submitted 1997
Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
tiny.ag/koexwc3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (364 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (403 ratings) · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/mb7skahf · ★★☆☆ Fair (276 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
tiny.ag/tuvabnig · ★★☆☆ Fair (890 ratings) · submitted 1999
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate
tiny.ag/ya1hwz5x · ★★☆☆ Fair (321 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
tiny.ag/hjlqxeds · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · submitted 1997
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/xkpfj82n · ★★☆☆ Fair (490 ratings) · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
tiny.ag/eoc1jiyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (591 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
tiny.ag/tmupilkz · ★★☆☆ Fair (504 ratings) · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
tiny.ag/gfpih4lb · ★★☆☆ Fair (315 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
tiny.ag/5x9cvfxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (242 ratings) · submitted 1997
I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
tiny.ag/uoqbw63r · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion
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/hfx4m7bz · ★★☆☆ Fair (555 ratings) · submitted 1998 by David Shorr
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · ★★☆☆ Fair (552 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
tiny.ag/isf8vo05 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1041 ratings) · submitted 1997
Delay is preferable to error.
tiny.ag/ry72cat0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
tiny.ag/qn3ryz0y · ★★☆☆ Fair (408 ratings) · submitted 1998
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
tiny.ag/5gcdbjbx · ★★☆☆ Fair (413 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.