Aphorisms Quotes - Page 4

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

We think we like or love some people until we see them regularly.

Most sexually adventurous women want a man who regards cunnilingus as a basic woman right.

Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.

Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.

Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

You burn like a candleinside my soul,showing me a waythrough this darkness.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.

We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

Walking through life, we spend most of our energy choosing the right shoes.

A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

Even the wheel of fortune can run over you.

Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.

The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed by his reason and its designs; so that no one becomes this or that because he wants to, though he want to never so much, but that his conduct proceeds from his inborn and inalterable character, is narrowly and in particulars determined by motivation, and is thus necessarily the product of these two factors.

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.

Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.

True friends chop the onions and cry together.

Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.

To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.

Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).

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.

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.

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.

Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.

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.

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 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.

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.

Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light.

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.

Modesty is fear.