Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
4641–4660 (5233)
tiny.ag/nvd59mjl · submitted 2002
Thus, it is the aim of good government to
stimulate production, of bad government to encourage
consumption."
Jean-Baptiste Say, "A Treatise on Political Economy", 1803
tiny.ag/bgimqj4v · submitted 2002
Wealth is hard to come by, but poverty is always at hand.
Proverbs from Ki-en-gir (Sumer), c. 2000, Internet History Sourcebooks-Fordham U.
tiny.ag/lefzpry0 · submitted 2002
It is possible to meet the sceptic who believes that everything began in himself. He doubts not the existence of angels or devils, but of men and cows. ... Then when this kindly world all around the man has been blackened out like a lie...then the great individualistic motto shall be written over him in avenging irony. ... [O]ver his cell shall be written, "He believes in himself."
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
tiny.ag/dw5mbfsk · submitted 2002
Birth control: less birth, no control.
tiny.ag/fsnefvcy · submitted 2002
A closed book gets the same amount of use as a closed mind.
Me, My high school mind
tiny.ag/17i3bkt0 · submitted 2002
If you want something done half way ask a man, but if you want something done right the first time ask a WOMAN!
tiny.ag/wyz1p7t2 · submitted 2002
Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.
Hipolito, from the movie Amelie
tiny.ag/7aukxlit · submitted 2002
"But he meant well" should be the ultimate damnation in the english language. If we had a lick of sense about us, the moment some miscreant called up that wretched defense for his crimes, we would regard it as proof of the true vileness of his misdeeds and redouble our thrashing of him. The wickedest, stupidest, and most destructive deeds of humanity done by people who "meant well" outstrip those done by the wilfully malicious by a hundredfold.
tiny.ag/f5ke83ol · submitted 2002
Our greatest moral failure is to credit the morally corrupt with noble intentions-- or act as if noble intentions made evil any less than what it is.
tiny.ag/6ylcbyrl · submitted 2002
"Bad humor is
an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."
Malcolm Muggeridge, former editor of Punch Magazine
tiny.ag/6qtwvuxi · submitted 2002
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the
established authorities are wrong."
tiny.ag/tbidyjao · submitted 2002
"Never let the perfect become the enemy of the good."
tiny.ag/3d0qorvx · submitted 2002
"Never let the perfect become the enemy of the good."
tiny.ag/ydt0j7wr · submitted 2002
The best laid of mice and men always go astray.
tiny.ag/mf14awyo · submitted 2002
Golf is the game in which the walls between the natural and supernatural are rubbed the thinnest.
tiny.ag/epwjogdx · submitted 2002
Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one hand.
tiny.ag/73z5argx · submitted 2002
I felt like last year's fashion clothes in her wardrobe.
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