Aphorisms Galore!

Submissions

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

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tiny.ag/j3ea5uwt  ·  submitted 2007

I decided to take up boxing to see what I was made of. It turns out IÂ’m made of blood.

John Alejandro King, real CIA officer, ... Soon to be sent back to Iraq

tiny.ag/jq1i6yva  ·  submitted 2007

When they say 'It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees,Â’ do they mean itÂ’s EVEN better?

John Alejandro King, CIA officer, Recently returned from Iraq

tiny.ag/gw7r9jnq  ·  submitted 2007

The good news: I kept my head when all about me were losing theirs. The bad news: I can't find my body.

John Alejandro King, a CIA officer, website is www.covertcomic.com

tiny.ag/vki7ldtj  ·  submitted 2007

There are only two valid things by which to judge someone: by what they SAY, and what they DO.

Not coincidentally, they are the only two things by which we are not permitted to evaluate anyone anymore.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/aem4xjxj  ·  submitted 2007

Life's a poem, a never ending story, which is longing to be written down. Every dot a moment, every line some experience, going up and down like waves in the sea.

Elisabeth Stone

tiny.ag/zbpwa9gq  ·  submitted 2007

When I was a little child, my mother told me not to beat people if they are lying on the floor already. But why didn't any one tell the others?

Elisabeth Stone

tiny.ag/qwsflzqm  ·  submitted 2007

Against any kind of rationality, I'm hoping desperately for hope.

Elisabeth Stone

tiny.ag/votp392q  ·  submitted 2007

  • Relatives are relative, but the family is absolute. Leonid S. Sukhorukov

Leonid S. Sukhorukov, Family

tiny.ag/4r36cikj  ·  submitted 2007

All women are angels!.. untill you are their god. Leonid S. Sukhorukov

Leonid S. Sukhorukov, Women and men

tiny.ag/op20elw9  ·  submitted 2007

  • In life it is better to be a corkscrew than a cork.

Leonid S. Sukhorukov, Life

tiny.ag/cvzbklnd  ·  submitted 2007

  • To win, embrace the majority: to lead, be willing to confront.

Leonid S. Sukhorukov, Politics

tiny.ag/ws7e6vzf  ·  submitted 2007

In America we don't have suicide bombers, we have ‘relatives.’

John Alejandro King, 'The Covert Comic', from 'My War On Terror!'

tiny.ag/f0gst95e  ·  submitted 2007

Hypocrisy is putting a bumper sticker on the back of your car, but not on the back of your head.

John Alejandro King, from ' My War On Terror!'

tiny.ag/0glg7kzy  ·  submitted 2007

All gratification is instant by definition.

John Alejandro King, 'The Covert Comic', from ' My War On Terror!'

tiny.ag/2ork3xsf  ·  submitted 2007

Instead of being selfish,
and selling fish,
give a few away,
like Jesus did.

Marcus "Whole-man" Hollman

tiny.ag/pn4helfr  ·  submitted 2007

Franz Kafka. Frank Zappa.
... Coincidence?

John A. King a.k.a. 'The Covert Comic', - 'Black Matters' (www.covertcomic.com)

tiny.ag/jqkem1gl  ·  submitted 2007

Is that a nanomachine in your pocket, or are you not all that glad to see me?

John Alejandro King, 'The Covert Comic', - from 'The Naked Intelligence Officer'

tiny.ag/jza2veqi  ·  submitted 2007

The good news: there are no longer more of them than there are of us.

The bad news: there are now more of us than there are of us.

John Alejandro King, - 'Black Matters' (www.covertcomic.com)

tiny.ag/6tvygsz7  ·  submitted 2007

Common sense is the ability to spontaneously create new knowledge using only existing knowledge.

Matthew D. Burrows, Long Beach, CA

tiny.ag/nw42iiob  ·  submitted 2007

Have you ever been walking along, and suddenly the toe of your shoe catches on the ground and you almost trip and fall on your face?

No?

... Good, me neither (I was just checking).

John Alejandro King, 'The Covert Comic', www.covertcomic.com

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