Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
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tiny.ag/7uqzkc6l · submitted 2002
There have to be crooks in this world too. If everyone were honest with each other, they'd soon start punching each other's noses.
Jaroslav Hasek, from The Good Soldier Svejk
tiny.ag/ajhsort8 · submitted 2002
You have to have some horror, to make the mourning worthwhile.
Jaroslav Hasek, from The Good Soldier Svejk
tiny.ag/zjfqo56a · submitted 2002
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P.G. Wodehouse, from The Man Upstairs
tiny.ag/gxbi1fcc · submitted 2002
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man.
Milan Kundera, from Slowness
tiny.ag/rq3p2lb1 · submitted 2002
Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: the highest morality consists in being useless.
Milan Kundera, Immortality
tiny.ag/dceqnvim · submitted 2002
Some of the most unattractive individuals in the world feel that they must multiply at all costs. They are apparently under the illusion that the burden of ugliness becomes lighter if it is shared with descendants.
Milan Kundera, The Farewell Party
tiny.ag/sxojbruv · submitted 2002
The desire for order is a virtuous pretext, an excuse for virulent misanthropy.
Milan Kundera, The Farewell Party
tiny.ag/0syxgdx3 · submitted 2002
At 15 I thought only of study; at 30 I began playing my role; at 40 I was sure of myself; at 50 I was conscious of my place in the Universe; at 60 I was no longer argumentative; and now at 70 I can follow my heart's desire without violating custom.
Confucius, from the Analects
tiny.ag/ezggqsik · submitted 2002
"Friends will help you move. Good Friends will help you hide bodies."
tiny.ag/nmddikgx · submitted 2002
A friend is someone who may laugh out loud when Life knocks you on yer butt, but they will give you a hand getting back on yer feet.
Phyllis Steinhauser, (creator)
tiny.ag/rhghgdn4 · submitted 2002
Dont borrow trouble, the interest is too damned high!
tiny.ag/pgmlrbz1 · submitted 2002
"If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bulls**t."
tiny.ag/2smk7uz1 · submitted 2002
"If ifs were fifths we'd all be drunk."
Unknown, heard from a lady at BINGO night
tiny.ag/9ahhj0mu · submitted 2002
When a man takes your wife, send him a dollar and thank him for taking out the trash
tiny.ag/7frgxbhq · submitted 2002
There is nothing more comforting, more terrifying and more safe, than the shadows of night. They engulf you in a blanket of darkness, and in the shadows there is more life than anywhere in the world.
Valeria McHenry, The shadows of Night
tiny.ag/7idvb8hg · submitted 2002
It's only because what is inside is so vulnerable that the shell has to be so hard
tiny.ag/8cgk7lfx · submitted 2002
What's the point in being alive if you can't engage in some savage battles against all the odds?
Hon. John C. Crosbie, From a speech delivered in 2000
tiny.ag/a6bfxjkd · submitted 2002
"I am wealthy in sunny days, and I have spent them lavishly."
Henry David Thoreau, do you think he plays golf?
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