Aphorisms Galore!

Submissions

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

tiny.ag/jo3zgiqw  ·  submitted 2019 by romantica

Rain drops are not the ones who bring the clouds.

Sorin Cerin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/9bw8jnos  ·  submitted 2019 by romantica

Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity.

Sorin Cerin, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/ugp0vh32  ·  submitted 2019 by Wmd

Writers are the pearl divers of the human spirit.

Walt Dunlap, From "Why I Love Trees."

tiny.ag/gbznqhrs  ·  submitted 2019 by Wmd

Writers are the Pearl diversof the human spirit.

Walt Dunlap, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/j4whdctu  ·  submitted 2019 by yawnimia

It is not the tallest man that casts the longest shadow- it is the last man standing at the end of the day.

Geoffrey Wright, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/d2ta5yni  ·  submitted 2019 by Nosy33

Murder is a zero-sum game
when played for wealth.
What is gained in affluence
is lost in rectitude.

John Carl Lynn, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/odszd4zp  ·  submitted 2019 by dorothybealm

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Rebecca West, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/ukgxljde  ·  submitted 2019 by dorothybealm

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/d4uwphq6  ·  submitted 2019 by dorothybealm

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/ug5wrhij  ·  submitted 2019 by dorothybealm

That which yields is not always weak

Jacqueline Carey, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/qfwioujg  ·  submitted 2019 by dorothybealm

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Lao Tzu, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/0jcpy6ez  ·  submitted 2019 by SAH2018153725

good work gives more work

Unknown, in Work and Recreation and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/ry4tgj03  ·  submitted 2019 by Kram51

There are only 2 drawbacks to a medical career: the hours and the patients.

M L Mallek, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/qxq4dt8o  ·  submitted 2019

"If you come across a word you don't know the definition to, look it up" -L Ron Hubbard

L Ron Hubbard, old father's adage, in Law and Politics and Art and Literature

tiny.ag/zzhpm6je  ·  submitted 2019 by Ultimaphorism

All books are sacred, merely when they are destroyed.

Maximillian Smith, old father's adage, in Law and Politics and Science and Religion

tiny.ag/z9lfxyai  ·  submitted 2019 by Ultimaphorism

Thy whom have stick, measures all rule

Maximillian Smith, old father's adage, in Law and Politics and Science and Religion

tiny.ag/l9uf1mc8  ·  submitted 2018

If our sandcastles keep getting stomped, we're not using enough nails.

Unknown

tiny.ag/twnp6lru  ·  submitted 2018 by WaynesWorldClovis

You can paint a pumpkin black but that don’t make it a bowling ball!

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/v7ua9bxk  ·  submitted 2018 by jpayne134

Twitter Bird was born to lie and tell the truth in Hell.

James payne

tiny.ag/c9zgsqqd  ·  submitted 2018 by jpayne134

If all there was to life is hard work, life would be easy.

James payne