An aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic
(concise) and memorable form. I like to collect phrases that people add to
the end of their mail. Sometimes things are interesting, other times they
are really stupid... And you, what do you think?
- Stupid is as Stupid Does
- Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper
- I am not young enough to know everything
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god
- Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
- A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground
- You can only be young once. But you can always be immature
- A man is known by the company he avoids
- Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be
asleep all day
- The most useless are those who never change through the years
- Efficiency is intelligent laziness
- Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing
in a garage makes you a car
- Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to
forget
- If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is
selling
- It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for
subtlety
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older
than I am
- Silence is the virtue of fools
- We are all born mad. Some remain so
- Life is a long lesson in humility
- Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail
better
- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December
- Never answer a critic, unless he's right
- Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be
wrong in his facts
- Don't work hard, work intelligent
- Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence
- Every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been
labeled Utopian
- A person is no less a slave because they are allowed to choose a new
master
