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/7ywvi02x  ·  submitted 2002

DonÂ’t bite the hand that feeds you

monkey

tiny.ag/aq5xqszm  ·  submitted 2002

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the
merger of state and corporate power"

Benito Mussolini, quoted by Molly Ivins

tiny.ag/fjqohy84  ·  submitted 2002

“Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny
of the majority.”

Supreme Court, 1995, McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission

tiny.ag/wwmuk9l1  ·  submitted 2002

Profit is the wage that employees pay an employer for their job - bargain wisely.

E. Bressie, Just an observation of the scene.

tiny.ag/smgz16jh  ·  submitted 2002

the wise learn many things from their enemies (aristophane ) and so they get out of their wisdom !

individu, my own wisdom

tiny.ag/uosq1mog  ·  submitted 2002

Anyone who isn't confused, really doesn't understand the situation.

Edward R. Murrow

tiny.ag/amkxsncj  ·  submitted 2002

it is easier for a camel to pass the eye of a needle without two humps

individu, for fun

tiny.ag/sdxhuzai  ·  submitted 2002

In any organisation 20 per
cent of the people do 80 per cent of the work,

Pareto's Principle, Italian Economist

tiny.ag/8awemzk3  ·  submitted 2002

'Improvement means deterioration'

Patrick Hutber, financial journalist

tiny.ag/tpjalysh  ·  submitted 2002

Once the monetary authorities begin
to focus on a particular intermediate target for policy purposes,
its behaviour changes

Professor Charles Goodhart

tiny.ag/h3tz7ezi  ·  submitted 2002

Something which is unsustainable can't go on for ever.

Professor Mervyn King, ex-chief economist, Bank of England

tiny.ag/kshfy0nx  ·  submitted 2002

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail??

Kelly L. Moran

tiny.ag/tuksnqzz  ·  submitted 2002

There are no limits to science, as there are no limits to the capabilities of the human being.

rperret

tiny.ag/uq615jao  ·  submitted 2002

Always do a sanity check on every rule. Some rules were formed in moments of insanity.
(For instance, we often say "there is always an exception to a rule".

This statement ITSELF is a rule. Which leads to recursion.

We then say: "there is always an exception to "there is always an exception to a rule"".

This can be simplified to a more meaningful form as: "there is NOT always an exception to a rule" - a contradiction to the original rule.)

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/3mtuvyza  ·  submitted 2002

Cry brothers...cry. Cry when the need be. Forget the myth...REAL men do cry.

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/4t9omlna  ·  submitted 2002

Sleep less...as you are helpless as you sleep (sleep 8 hours a day, and if you live to see 72, you have had 24 years of helplessness!)

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/hksapm4x  ·  submitted 2002

Explore your mind...you never know what you`d find. Know yourself. You think you know yourself, but you never fully know.

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/f8k3dbra  ·  submitted 2002

Say what you mean...mean what you say. But be warned...you`d he hated.

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/0hxx1p7l  ·  submitted 2002

The Ignorant hopes for your ignorance and hates you for your cognizance.

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/i9mavhvx  ·  submitted 2002

The Moment is dynamic and changes too fast...Live for the Moment and the Moment will leave you in the Past.

Oyeniyi Dada, Counter to James Dean's "Live as if..."

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