Aphorist Quotes

Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.

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Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.

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Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.

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Some kleptomaniacs do not steal things only; they also, while some only, steal lovers.

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Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

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I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.

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We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

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Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex.

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Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.

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Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

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He with the cleanest clothes isn’t necessarily the cleanest.

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Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.

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You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

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When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

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

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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.

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

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Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.

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Some men’s chests are more buttlike than some women’s butts.

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Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet.

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Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.

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Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.

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There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.

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The only real reason that some relationships and marriages have not yet been ended is because in each case one of the partners has not yet found their ideal partner or someone they love or at least like.

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We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

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Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

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If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

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Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.

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Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).

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We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.

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One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.

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Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

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Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

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Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

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An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

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Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare.

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We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

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Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.

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Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.

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To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

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The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

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One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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