Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
4901–4920 (5417)
tiny.ag/atuecmej · submitted 2002
Always strive to make yourself a better person, because it is you who has to live with you every day til eternity.
tiny.ag/4i12ehql · submitted 2002
Power concedes nothing without a demand it never has and it never will.
tiny.ag/zf9mwr2o · submitted 2002
There is no shame in being ignorant, the real shame is in remaining that way.
tiny.ag/w7h1upgo · submitted 2002
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
tiny.ag/atv1dm8w · submitted 2002
if these coincidences are coincidental, then why do they seem so contived?
Chris Carter, spoken by: fox mulder, x-flies
tiny.ag/qfhwicwt · submitted 2002
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
tiny.ag/ehx4yaag · submitted 2002
A person will be called upon to account on judgment day for every permissible thing that they might have enjoyed but did not.
tiny.ag/nvei74wq · submitted 2002
In the final analysis, it is all between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.
tiny.ag/ohf4kcb3 · submitted 2002
God knows how much you can take. Never give up! The tide will turn. A miracle will happen. There is no hopeless situation until you become a hopeless person.
tiny.ag/izpmw4oy · submitted 2002
Ahh, the laser pointer. And to think it only took Man 10,000 years to invent a mechanism for herding cats.
tiny.ag/kbhvpnsk · submitted 2002
When you say where you are, that's where you've been.
To see outside, you must look from within.
tiny.ag/jiuczauq · submitted 2002
"Amateurs talk about strategy, the pros talk about logistics."
Col. Ken Allard, Ret., NBC Military Analyst, 8/15/02
tiny.ag/reeuyctt · submitted 2002
I've noticed that those people who proclaim a hatred for the existence of religion and the belief in God, generally don't seem to like people that much either....
tiny.ag/p2fbdeki · submitted 2002
"The race may not always go to the swiftest, but that's the way to bet"
tiny.ag/vufl2icy · submitted 2002
Proud? Yes I am proud, I must be proud
to see men not afraid of God, afraid of me!
Alexander Pope, from Dialectics
tiny.ag/qyzdisdx · submitted 2002
Reason is, and ought to be, the servant of the passions.
David Hume, The Atheist, according to his friends
tiny.ag/qbsc7sid · submitted 2002
...the Taxes are indeed very heavy... but we are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly.
Ben Franklin, The Autobiography and other writings
tiny.ag/poif0wqf · submitted 2002
To a cost-benefit analyst, sex may look like a time-consuming, energy-swallowing waste of time.
Howard Bloom, from Global Brain
tiny.ag/i7lj4pth · submitted 2002
The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. (an appraisal of the value of sex to humanity)
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