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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (67 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

[aphorist] Yogi Berra, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (785 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

[aphorist] Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in [category] War and Peace

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (365 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Stephen

All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.

[aphorist] Lee Hawkins, in [category] Health and Disease

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (68 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It gets late early out there.

[aphorist] Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in [category] Work and Recreation

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (3020 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.

[aphorist] Erkki J. Jyrkkanen, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (43 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

[aphorist] R. I. Fitzhenry, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (846 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

[aphorist] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (85 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.

[aphorist] Doug Horton, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (164 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

[aphorist] Rudyard Kipling, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2710 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

[aphorist] Daisaku Ikeda, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (3001 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

[aphorist] Robert G. Ingersoll, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (245 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

[aphorist] Alfred Korzybski, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (150 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

[aphorist] Krystal Ann Kraus, in [category] Men and Women

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (882 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is impossible to love and be wise.

[aphorist] Francis Bacon, in [category] Love and Hate

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (19 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

[aphorist] Burt Bacharach, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (187 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

[aphorist] John Perry Barlow, in [category] Law and Politics

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (279 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

[aphorist] Niels Bohr, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (46 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

[aphorist] Oliver Wendell Holmes, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (150 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

[aphorist] Robert Byrne, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (768 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

[aphorist] Mahatma Gandhi, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Work and Recreation

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