Aphorisms Galore!

Submissions

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

tiny.ag/zdfuf9bh  ·  submitted 2022 by outtooman

Life is in the pursuit of good, all setbacks and difficulties are not lucky, but can not stop chasing the pace of good, to learn to create good.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/tpjrxzis  ·  submitted 2022 by spre

“I think when you take decisions, you should take them not on the basis of what you believe is a convenient outcome, but what you believe is the right outcome. That's something that is important.

Pallonji Mistry, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/b62cmmjg  ·  submitted 2022

Focus is the art of making serious matters a distraction.

yawnimia, Geoffrey W Wright, in Work and Recreation and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/w5lqompj  ·  submitted 2022 by yawnimia

There is no reasonable alternative to growing old.

yawnimia, Geoffrey W Wright, in Life and Death and Health and Disease

tiny.ag/10dfxi8h  ·  submitted 2022 by yawnimia

One who cannot find the time has lost himself.

yawnimia, Geoffrey W Wright, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/uzken1du  ·  submitted 2022 by yawnimia

That which is necessary may not be indispensable.

yawnimia, Geoffrey W Wright, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/uakeaq36  ·  submitted 2022 by yawnimia

There are so many fewer words than there are things to say.

yawnimia, Geoffrey W Wright, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/jylhkbtc  ·  submitted 2022 by yawnimia

We say so much and tell so little.

yawnimia, Geoffrey W Wright, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/ktjwxe0g  ·  submitted 2022 by yawnimia

I need a lot of things; the least of which is advice on what they are.

yawnimia, Geoffrey W Wright, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/uyms918g  ·  submitted 2022 by yawnimia

One who speaks for himself may not think for himself.

yawnimia, Geoffrey W Wright, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/dxbhijbz  ·  submitted 2022 by yawnimia

One who has something to say about everything has little to say about anything.

yawnimia, Geoffrey W Wright, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/1vv5j9pm  ·  submitted 2022 by yawnimia

The most expensive commodity is experience; we pay for it with our lives

yawnimia, Geoffrey W Wright, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/htmgdnjs  ·  submitted 2022 by tho61236

Less is more, more or less.

Kevin, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/6kfb2pxu  ·  submitted 2022 by ByBaylis

It's so hard being a perfectionist when you keep making mistakes.

By Baylis, James Geary selected this as one of his aphorism of the day in late 2012 or early 2013, in Success and Failure and Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/ztyb6l3e  ·  submitted 2022 by UncleZane

For thousands of years Jews have been begging "Let my people go". Now and for hundreds of years, people of African skin have been begging "Let my people live".

David Zane Fleisher, Three days after the shooting murder in Buffalo, New York, in Law and Politics and Life and Death

tiny.ag/go8bnqsv  ·  submitted 2022 by UncleZane

If you see a turtle sitting on a fence post, he had help getting there.

Bill Clinton, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/njyfiilq  ·  submitted 2022 by UncleZane

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes Duty.

Unknown, in Law and Politics and Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/uadioqcz  ·  submitted 2022 by UncleZane

THOSE WHO DESIRE TO BE IGNORANT AND FREE; DESIRE WHAT NEVER WAS AND NEVER SHALL BE.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/ltka8jsf  ·  submitted 2022 by UncleZane

IF YOU DO NOT STAND FOR SOMETHING THEN YOU DO STAND FOR NOTHING

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/oqkt4bod  ·  submitted 2022

America has a hole that may never matter, and it's the judicial branchs' understanding of contact in the sport football.

Matt Audia, in Law and Politics and Life and Death