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Anyone know any good aphorisms, let's hear them...

Asked by applegate (61points) November 21st, 2008
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Les's avatar

Story of my life:
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing. Werner von Braun

miasmom's avatar

All cats are grey in the dark. Benjamin Franklin

Sueanne_Tremendous's avatar

I came. I saw. I conquered.

elchoopanebre's avatar

Oh come on people, this thread has awesome potential!

-Children and fools tell the truth.
-A rolling stone gathers no moss.
-A loveless life is a living death.
-A friend to all is a friend to none.
-A tree is known by its fruit.
-A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

There are many more. Let’s keep them coming.

Bluefreedom's avatar

- A little violence never hurt anyone.

queenzboulevard's avatar

[about ending a sentence with a preposition] It is a rule up with which I shall not put.—Churchill

gailcalled's avatar

“Speak softly and carry a big stick.“T. Roosevelt borrowed that from an African saying, I think.
“God does not play dice with the universe.” A Einstein

Bluefreedom's avatar

“A promise not to change is a promise not to grow.”

SuperMouse's avatar

There’s no “I” in team.

boffin's avatar

“No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear”
– Too much power is never enough….Mark Donohue on the Can Am Porsche 917.

omfgTALIjustIMDu's avatar

—“99% of the game is half mental.”
—“It gets late early out there.”
—“It’s like déjà vu all over again.”
^^^Yogi Berra

queenzboulevard's avatar

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -Einstein

I feel like these are just quotes…

omfgTALIjustIMDu's avatar

@queen, Where do you draw the line between aphorism and quote?

gailcalled's avatar

I believe that an aphorism gives me advice.

omfgTALIjustIMDu's avatar

I thought it was just a pithy comment on life.

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