Aphorism Quotes - Page 2

He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.

Where there is a smoke, there is an ecologist.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

Don't let the devil fool you! Unless he's handsome.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.

Only memories have a future.

A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.

Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books.

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.

A man who wears a fragrant flower on his collar spreads a perfume wherever he goes. (141)

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.

The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

People would rather be equal thank free.

The Earth orbits round tables.

Who am I to judge me?

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

Good morning, nightmare!

The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.

The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.

There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.

What I say will be a bit of boasting. The mad wine tells me to do it. Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.

An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.

Behind every successful woman is a hungry man.

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.

Children are our future. Unfortunately, we are their past.

He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual.

Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.

Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.

People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.

Keep your heads up! We are sinking!

When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true.

What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites.