Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
4841–4860 (5663)
tiny.ag/lcwrxay4 · submitted 2003
When you find that they are superior to us in any field, remember that their superiority is inferior to ours.
James Thurber, from Lances & Lanterns
tiny.ag/nr65d7vc · submitted 2003
You are seeking to distort our objectives by exposing them to the scrutiny of the unfairest of all bourgeouis virtues, namely truth.
James Thurber, from Lances & Lanterns
tiny.ag/1bx53z7m · submitted 2003
Calculated Risk, then, goes like this: 'We have every hope and assurance that the plan will be successful, but if it doesn't work we knew all the time it wouldn't , and said so.'
James Thurber, from Lances & Lanterns
tiny.ag/yfrz81ak · submitted 2003
So much has been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
James Thurber, from Lances & Lanterns
tiny.ag/t07rq5va · submitted 2003
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.
William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General
tiny.ag/hc8radgw · submitted 2003
Longing to be someone, in a world which contstantly reminds you that you are nothing
tiny.ag/9jfxklbs · submitted 2003
Any 'scholar' who would say that fantasy is easier to create than "real world" fiction is a buffoon who would insist that a unicycle is easier to ride than a bicycle because it has one less wheel.
RHJunior, In response to an insulting critique
tiny.ag/9vot8pgu · submitted 2003
Knowledge without direction is a ship without a sail.
Scott M. Stratton, Written as a dedication to a sibling.
tiny.ag/z2wjirem · submitted 2003
You may not be as young as you used to be, but at least you're not as old as you're gonna get.
tiny.ag/huf5rxcj · submitted 2003
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
tiny.ag/ryhesw0r · submitted 2003
Traditions are paths tread by the feet of others, which merely err around the freeway of pragmatism.
tiny.ag/a0cbqplp · submitted 2003
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by not dying."
tiny.ag/bgjvnqza · submitted 2003
"We judge others by their actions, but expect others to judge us by our intentions."
tiny.ag/6b0flsli · submitted 2003
"Most humans are incapable of acting in their own self-interest."
"Skylord", MIT Computer Construct, Excerpt from an on-line chat in 1996
tiny.ag/ysfinehz · submitted 2003
Every day in Africa, the lion knows that he has to outrun the swiftest gazelle, or he'll starve, and the gazelle know that he has to outrun the swiftest lion, or he'll perish.
tiny.ag/ep06vc19 · submitted 2003
In life, beware of the law court. In death, beware of hell.
tiny.ag/72t60uaf · submitted 2003
Just because you're hosting the party doesn't mean you have the right to piss in the punch bowl.
tiny.ag/ofaywptb · submitted 2003
Dottage: the age at which one's mind is reduced to a dot.
tiny.ag/9qhwpfmo · submitted 2003
At all possible points, seek a peaceful resolution. But do not forego a militant solution too long-- and when you do choose to respond with force, strike with all the swiftness, power and wrath you can muster. Dash them to flinders utterly. Anything less is not merciful, for it only emboldens your enemy to extend the suffering.
tiny.ag/ln6yuctk · submitted 2003
It is ironic that lying, of all human sins, gets the easiest "pass" from us... seeing that all the evil and misery and suffering in the world can be traced to a lie. Every theft, rape, and murder, every tyranny, every cruelty, every destruction and social blight, requires at some point the services of a liar to proliferate. Apt indeed that the Devil is called the Prince of Lies, because every liar is one of the damned going about doing his infernal father's work.
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