Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · ★★☆☆ Fair (1204 ratings) · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/pazvp4tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/sr1e2c3y · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
tiny.ag/6ldwnwhf · ★★☆☆ Fair (14 ratings) · submitted 1997
A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
tiny.ag/h5blv72l · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
tiny.ag/n3oab9iu · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
tiny.ag/cgb5omnm · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
They are able because they think they are able.
tiny.ag/30roecxw · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/ghr75dcd · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
tiny.ag/kzayik2y · ★★☆☆ Fair (47 ratings) · submitted 1997
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
tiny.ag/m3n54rvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
tiny.ag/vpdlcnc4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.
tiny.ag/ajoczguy · ★★☆☆ Fair (351 ratings) · submitted 1997
Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (the Susie Derkins character), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/cwprmiyl · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
tiny.ag/6wwft1cd · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
tiny.ag/5wea9qlk · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/abk7huzh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1236 ratings) · submitted 1997
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
tiny.ag/hcgfyxv9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
A .44 magnum beats four aces.
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