Aphorisms Galore!

Submissions

These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.

5201–5220 (5227)

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

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

Enemy's silence is more dangerous than his attack.

Vugar Abdullah Gurban

tiny.ag/hqc4phig  ·   Fair (296 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

tiny.ag/c9pzhbea  ·   Fair (267 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Once is funny, twice is TV.

Robert McClain, View any sitcom for the truth of this.

tiny.ag/ac4uapit  ·   Fair (259 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

when two people get together it is either romance or politics,and a third just makes it war!

gary mcdonald, from the bench

tiny.ag/shfsekn0  ·   Fair (279 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

All that counts in life is earnings growth

A.A.Webb (former Royal Trust president)

tiny.ag/megovrc2  ·   Fair (236 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

If you want to be loved...be lovable.If you want to be respected...be respectable.

Caroline Colasanti, From over 50 years of observation.

tiny.ag/sd2hr1sl  ·   Fair (270 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

I've learned that making a "living" is not the same as making a "life"

Jessica Charles

tiny.ag/hvpne1fo  ·   Fair (262 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

nothing great was achieved without enthusiasm.

emerson

tiny.ag/soj6wbt9  ·   Fair (282 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

I'm really not that smart, I just remember everything.

Unknown

tiny.ag/0yogwr46  ·   Fair (306 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Happiness is two friends sharing the same sunlight

Colin Young, Just a thought

tiny.ag/60u1ufvs  ·   Fair (301 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Architecture is what you do to a building when you look at it

Walt Whitman, Quoted in 'Tracings' journal.

tiny.ag/im3utdup  ·   Fair (286 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Video games don't affect kids. If Pacman had affected us when we were kids, everyone would be running around in darkened rooms, munching on magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

Davey Whipwreck, Dave: The Quotes Collection

tiny.ag/tm2xyhoi  ·   Fair (338 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001 by Kimberly L Strain

What the....?

Unknown

tiny.ag/k6hyv8mb  ·   Fair (280 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Knowledge is finite but ignorance knows no bounds.

Charles Osgood

tiny.ag/slkerzoi  ·   Fair (288 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.

John Lennon

tiny.ag/p92fvpox  ·   Fair (303 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

T. S. Eliot

tiny.ag/ftdi3vg6  ·   Fair (298 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Manga and Anime are a lot alike a secret admirer. You've heard of them, you're interested, but you don't know what (or who) they are!

Tory Mosakino, on manga and anime

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