Aphorisms Galore!

Submissions

These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.

1841–1860 (6461)

tiny.ag/7zhoku4u  ·  submitted 2016 by Bluefoot

So apparently, 'I didn't even know you had a birthday.' is not a valid excuse for missing one.

Rock Cowles, www.ACunningLinguist.com, in Men and Women and Love and Hate

tiny.ag/u7x9fixn  ·  submitted 2016 by Bluefoot

Religion is indeed the opiate of the masses. Except for Islam, its more like Crystal Meth.

Rock Cowles, www.ACunningLinguist.com, in Science and Religion and War and Peace

tiny.ag/lypaxuur  ·  submitted 2016 by Bluefoot

I liked what we had, I just didn't like having it with you.

Rock Cowles, www.ACunningLinguist.com, in Love and Hate and Men and Women

tiny.ag/n4hymjjq  ·  submitted 2016 by Bluefoot

Inside every fat person is a thin person struggling to get out. Sometimes as many as two or three.

Rock Cowles, www.ACunningLinguist.com, in Health and Disease and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/uwe1n0ri  ·  submitted 2016 by Bluefoot

I hate it when there is nothing on the Internet...

Rock Cowles, www.ACunningLinguist.com, in Happiness and Misery and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/xu7mgfrj  ·  submitted 2016 by Bluefoot

I like the way your smile takes up your whole face.

Rock Cowles, www.ACunningLinguist.com, in Men and Women and Love and Hate

tiny.ag/g0rb2tgv  ·  submitted 2016 by Bluefoot

If there is no God wouldn't you want to know? If you wore a big heavy parachute 24/7 for years in case you ever had to jump out of a plane and then one day someone had you open it and look inside and you found out it wasn't a parachute after all, but a backpack full of comic books, would you be glad you hadn't waited until you jumped out of a plane to find out and happy to know the truth and stay away from planes as much as possible?

Rock Cowles, www.ACunningLinguist.com, in Science and Religion and Life and Death

tiny.ag/dc5v68qu  ·  submitted 2016 by Bluefoot

Last year the vet told me my dog was getting old and I should put her down so I started calling her "Fat Ass".

Rock Cowles, www.ACunningLinguist.com, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/pcenkxb7  ·  submitted 2016 by Bluefoot

A cunning linguist puts his money where his mouth is.

Rock Cowles, www.ACunningLinguist.com, in Men and Women and Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/dfabzp9w  ·  submitted 2016 by Bluefoot

Youth: Time spent flip flopping between being lonely and wanting to be left alone."

Rock Cowles, www.ACunningLinguist.com, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/tvdv7imp  ·  submitted 2016 by Bluefoot

I antagonize almost everyone I meet. I think it's a mirth defect.

Rock Cowles, www.ACunningLinguist.com, in Altruism and Cynicism and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/hzftvyje  ·  submitted 2016 by mabloom77

With each breath, i use myself up.

Mark Bloom, 1, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/lyx7awep  ·  submitted 2016 by motindew

“The ultimate lesson to prohibition is two-fold. Watch out for solutions that end up worse than the problems they set out to solve, and remember the Constitution is no place for experiments, noble or otherwise.” – D. Duane Steward, PhD

D Steward, in Law and Politics and Food and Drink

tiny.ag/6mnsnwr8  ·  submitted 2016 by WillHerondale

If you love for love, you love for lies.

Jem, in Love and Hate and Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/3012gi7f  ·  submitted 2016

I cried because I had no shoes. Until I met a man who had no brake lights on his Jaguar.

Mark Sienkiewicz

tiny.ag/amcdgpnz  ·  submitted 2016

LIFE IS SHORT, BUT INFINITELY WIDE.

KEVIN JOHN CURRAN, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/ebcfjfdo  ·  submitted 2016

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Joseph Addison

tiny.ag/uncbaol8  ·  submitted 2016

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

tiny.ag/uqnxauzc  ·  submitted 2016

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Joseph Addison

tiny.ag/brokupzl  ·  submitted 2016 by 3Minutes2Midnight

Accumulating the most wealth is like accumulating the most bricks. It means nothing if you don't build anything.

Platonymous, in Wealth and Poverty and Wisdom and Ignorance

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