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/tjbviflr  ·   Fair (68 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"What experience and history teach is this -- That people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on the principles deduced from it."

Geroge Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, from "Philosophy of History"

tiny.ag/e6lq5g7s  ·   Fair (117 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence at all."

Mark Twain

tiny.ag/quynarxi  ·   Fair (133 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

Mark Twain

tiny.ag/y9r1plxx  ·   Fair (131 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do."

B. F. Skinner

tiny.ag/pvekmygo  ·   Fair (119 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"I am free with my opinions. I am a free-thinker."

Unknown

tiny.ag/huofzpe3  ·   Fair (117 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

Thomas Paine

tiny.ag/7kagyejv  ·   Fair (114 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"Programming today is a race between
software engineers striving to build
bigger and better idiot-proof programs,
and the Universe trying to produce
bigger and better idiots.

So far, the Universe is winning."

Rich Cook

tiny.ag/tsnpaqij  ·   Fair (117 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Albert Einstein

tiny.ag/p1hy7bru  ·   Fair (95 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

Albert Einstein

tiny.ag/8ok2vph3  ·   Fair (108 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

Henry David Thoreau

tiny.ag/6vexnoyj  ·   Fair (98 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

P. J. O'Rourke

tiny.ag/ebuuopld  ·   Fair (102 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Most people would rather die than think --- and most people do.

Bertrand Russell

tiny.ag/gf2jx3aw  ·   Fair (91 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

No one remembers how many times Babe Ruth struck out.

Joel L. Schiff

tiny.ag/nqiw9z6b  ·   Fair (90 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

The best laid of mice and men always go astray.

Joel L. Schiff

tiny.ag/aaibr3kw  ·   Fair (101 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

When you deny what is all you have left
is what isn`t.

James Nani, from,"Wisdom for Dummys" #173

tiny.ag/ba0yoeed  ·   Fair (77 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

God doesn`t make mistakes.Now look in the mirror again.

James Nani, "Wisdom for Dummys" by nani

tiny.ag/ik3dvbf2  ·   Fair (93 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

You`re going to die so you might as well live.

James Nani, one of over 450.Book in process

tiny.ag/dakhyjgs  ·   Fair (112 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

If it is more efficient, improves quality of living, eases suffering, costs less, works better, lasts longer, or saves lives, it's almost a perfect guaruntee that the status quo will fight its introduction into the system to the very death.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/2dbzm8ax  ·   Fair (102 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Government "deregulation" is a lot like having someone nail both your feet to the floor-- and having them come back later and offer to pry the nail out of one foot, your choice. And then they're baffled when you can only walk in a circle.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/1mjf9vwg  ·   Fair (103 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

To the addressee, the significance of an e-mail is inversely proportional to the level in the organization from where it emanates.

Unknown

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