Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
5281–5300 (5841)
tiny.ag/24ojak9z · submitted 2002
Time is only Nature's way of insuring that EVERYTHING doesn't happen at once.
tiny.ag/mmnirsv9 · submitted 2002
Do not waste your sympathy on those who are less fortunate than you; One should only feel sorry for the rich and chronically gifted.
tiny.ag/zwus5mng · submitted 2002
Disect your soul with every sentence; Write to understand yourself and people will understand your writing.
Everett Sizemore, May not be EXACTLY an aphorism
tiny.ag/s3cezgki · submitted 2002
"Our first purpose in life is to be as artificial as possible, and our second has not yet been discovered."
tiny.ag/iuq12zjt · submitted 2002
Anonymous and Unknown were the greatest two philosiphers who ever lived.
Unknown, heard it on radio
tiny.ag/au0rs1kw · submitted 2002
If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the
corridor in the other direction.
tiny.ag/f1vvxqrx · submitted 2002
To move with words in a way that transcends physical ability is truly a gift—a novelty to be admired.
tiny.ag/j5spaknm · submitted 2002
God tolerates the intolerable; he is irresponsible and inconsistent, he is not a gentleman.
Arturo Perez-Reverte, Translated by Margret Jull Costa
tiny.ag/7ofq6xvv · submitted 2002
Even with a lot of pracice, you'll never be perfect"
tiny.ag/afxerglz · submitted 2002
When man has reached the wisdom that ”The mystery of Life itself is amoral”, - then the reverence disappears, and he can, in all his physical lack of power, grip the mystery by the neck and shake it like a glove.
Peter Wessel Zapffe, About the tragic
tiny.ag/xxpsg7oi · submitted 2002
"What does not kill you only makes you stronger," she said. Then she killed him.
tiny.ag/l3hbkazj · submitted 2002
Greatness comes not from the size of your wallet but from the depth of your soul
Rebecca Bular, A reminder of what greatness really is
tiny.ag/8low7dgj · submitted 2002
I have never seen an ugly smile nor an attractive frown.
Armand Coallier, Observing Humans
tiny.ag/bvnhhkns · submitted 2002
I have never seen an ugly smile nor an attractive frown.
Armand Coallier, Observing Humans
tiny.ag/75ggdyxb · submitted 2002
I have never seen an ugly smile nor an attractive frown.
Armand Coallier, Observing Humans
tiny.ag/j6uwtiag · submitted 2002
We must learn never to give up hope in life, for we are the chosen ones of the location we call existence, our lives a gift of mysterious origin and meaning.
tiny.ag/oagnbqw7 · submitted 2002
From pain can come a greater glimpse of truth, and from the these brief moments of light can come an appreciation for the precious moments that make life worth living.
tiny.ag/7zdk9kce · submitted 2002
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
tiny.ag/e06dcazk · submitted 2002
All I know is that my knowledge limits all I know.
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