Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
1921–1940 (6461)
tiny.ag/em52wbjq · submitted 2015
Give er the berries and everything will be cherry.
tiny.ag/fd8jfvgv · submitted 2015 by maurysis
Benepe's Law: Some people are shits.
tiny.ag/lpwn5yzv · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
In time, everything becomes ironic.
Stephen Densmore, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Life and Death
tiny.ag/9qndulhi · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
The only good thing about the past is it won't happen again; the only good thing about the future is it's not here yet.
Stephen Densmore, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/ontipxck · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
Modern capitalism brings out the worst in mankind. It is also most reflective of mankind's fundamental human nature. In the black synergy of these two assertions can be found the root cause of most of the misery man is responsible for--and most of the glory.
Stephen Densmore, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/0toahofb · submitted 2015 by vellichor
When you're dead you don't know you're dead, so it's a problem only for others. It's the same when you're stupid.
tiny.ag/4u6lb0rl · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
Dogs and cats are man-created mutants. Were a non-deluded man to look deeply enough into the eyes of his "pet," his creature, he would see naught but his own despair.
tiny.ag/apj9ijgi · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
Any increase in the number of people participating in religious activities in a given society is to be viewed with the greatest trepidation: happy, contented people do not go looking for God.
Stephen Densmore, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/lsacgvqm · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
Dogs and cats are man-created mutants. Were a non-deluded man to look deeply enough into the eyes of his “pet,†his creature, he would see naught but his own despair.
tiny.ag/2wkjsihd · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
Economic systems were created by men. How then did it come to pass that these systems control man and not the other way around? Can it be possible that we built the prison, threw ourselves into it, and locked the door? With all mankind inside the prison, who will let us out?
Strephen Densmore, in Wealth and Poverty and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/donijtvk · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
Assuming that love does make the world go round, the keys to a nation's character are to be found not in its history, nor in its art or literature, but in its pornography.
tiny.ag/5kow3wsf · submitted 2015 by fang1
You don't get to vote on the way it is, you already did.
tiny.ag/tsby9a4y · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
Observe a crowded bar anywhere in the civilized world and you will see the battle of the sexes in its most unsporting form. Thus, Saturday night belongs to women. On the other hand, Sunday morning belongs to men.
tiny.ag/mauyxmgo · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
Unmediated reality is a contradiction in terms.
tiny.ag/ie1nfr7d · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
Civilization is the paint. Barbarity is the wood.
tiny.ag/ge2q7wrw · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
God is an analogue, a metaphor, for all that we want to believe about our existences. In other words, God is poetry for hope.
tiny.ag/rcfgdq8k · submitted 2015 by brimacbt
Always look at the big picture: as the details recede, so does the devil.
tiny.ag/piqtdeds · submitted 2015 by bewing
I would rather be a live hero than a dead coward.
Unknown, Is this attributed to anyone? If not, I claim it.
1921–1940 (6461)