Aphorism Quotes - Page 6

Each of us is like all of us and like no one else.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

If you don't understand it, it's art.

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards.

The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

I don't like him. He makes me laugh. It'll wrinkle my face.

Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!

Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will never love each other.

Some women’s greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by many women, whereas some women’s greatest achievement is refusing to sleep with such a man.

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.

Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead.

The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.

She said yes. If only she didn't talk so much!

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

Beware of finding what you're lookin

My expectations for the future? A beautiful past.

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

You get what you want and you become its slave.

Modesty is fear.

Keep trying?I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky

I'm not a saint! Thanks God!

Life is a circle. It spins you around.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

Please be my friend.

When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for.

Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.

Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happened to them had happened to their partners, or if the fortunate things that have happened to their partners had happened to them.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper.

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Some people wouldn’t still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn’t be disabled or dead.

Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.

Galileo, yet men turn around women!

One can not come back from life.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

The eleventh commandment of art: thou shalt not be boring.

When I am, you are not.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.

I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.

A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.

The key to happiness is under the doorstep rug.

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.