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tiny.ag/bmdpgrs0 · submitted 1997
Let's have some new clichés.
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
tiny.ag/yefighwf · submitted 1999
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
tiny.ag/mqbuthzj · submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
tiny.ag/rdqgrf59 · submitted 1997
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
tiny.ag/bnnutdd7 · submitted 1997
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
tiny.ag/mnrh4p2b · submitted 1997
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/o7yghtxb · submitted 1999
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/uz9atcqm · submitted 1997
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
tiny.ag/t9m3smqg · submitted 1997
Women make love for love, men make love for lust.
Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
tiny.ag/p6bwfqfr · submitted 1997
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
tiny.ag/iht7l65u · submitted 1997
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
tiny.ag/9bumiall · submitted 1997
There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
tiny.ag/5x9cvfxv · 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/r3davdhl · submitted 1997
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
tiny.ag/ocxoq7dr · submitted 1997
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
tiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · submitted 1998
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
tiny.ag/dxbh08ml · submitted 1997
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.