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Commenttiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1998 ·
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
Commenttiny.ag/da1k6tun · ★★☆☆ Fair (723 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Stephen
All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.
Commenttiny.ag/hyedkhd2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (330 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Commenttiny.ag/rdqgrf59 · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Commenttiny.ag/uoqbw63r · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion
Commenttiny.ag/yio6tuyz · ★★☆☆ Fair (986 ratings) · submitted 1997
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death
Deep Thoughts (paperback)Commenttiny.ag/asaliq9g · ★★☆☆ Fair (3066 ratings) · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
Commenttiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Commenttiny.ag/9whxy8s7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (549 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Commenttiny.ag/tldrjftc · ★★☆☆ Fair (1115 ratings) · submitted 1997
Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)Commenttiny.ag/f0cqgbjg · ★★☆☆ Fair (325 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Commenttiny.ag/dnj7czjw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1070 ratings) · submitted 1998 ·
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
Commenttiny.ag/nvdb2cfz · ★★☆☆ Fair (403 ratings) · submitted 1997
Burning desire is the eternal flame.
Commenttiny.ag/1zzynlyn · ★★☆☆ Fair (439 ratings) · submitted 1997
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Commenttiny.ag/1i8zitnu · ★★☆☆ Fair (892 ratings) · submitted 1998 ·
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
Commenttiny.ag/wpy86lpb · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
Commenttiny.ag/fznv6alr · ★★☆☆ Fair (554 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
Commenttiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.