Do you have an aphorism you would like to share?

This is an exception to every rule (except this one).

Shit happens.

I used to have an aphorism I would share, but my doctor told me that it could be contagious and that it might be harmful to use aphorisms in public. So I stopped.

Easy come, easy go.

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

~Mark Twain

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

- Robert Heinlein

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

- Oscar Wilde

A vote is like a rifle, its usefulness depends on the user.

-TR

One’s past becomes the past once the blood tests are passed.
– Me

Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” Neil Degrasse Tyson

Never get on ebay drunk.

-Jesse W., my brother-in-law

(he refuses to tell us how he came to this epiphany)

There are two rules for success in life:

1. Don’t tell all you know…

A few:

The more we love a mistress, the nearer we are to hating her.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant`s revolving door.
~Albert Camus

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ben Franklin had a lot of them. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Now that I think of it, what the heck does that mean? Or was he the one that said it? I think I’ll go back to bed. I’m not ready for today.

Man is condemned to be free

We are our choices.

There is no reality except in action.

If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.

Existence precedes essence.

Hell is other people.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

- Jean Paul Sartre

Two of my favorites that actually conflict with each other, plus one more:

1. “You only truly possess what cannot be lost in a shipwreck.”
-El Ghazali

2. “In this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours.”
-Ayn Rand

3. “There is no shortcut to truth.”
-Alfred North Whitehead

Lonelydragon…..I totally agree.

I am holding back so many secrets. Does this make me a genuis???

The penis mightier than the sword?

I would say that @lonelydragon ‘s second rule should be that there are no rules for guaranteed success in life.

Politics is showbiz for ugly people.

Mean… but makes me giggle when I am watching the news sometimes.

By the age of eleven, I was finally exasperated with my parents.
I knew I had been left with no alternative but to fuck myself up. – Don Paterson.

If you have to make a mistake, at least make a new one.-Charles James
(James was an American couturier and this aphorism was hung in his design room.)

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.-Lewis Carroll from Alice in Wonderland

fflutherother I don’t like your aphorsim!! I think it is clever, but of course, not always true. Sometimes fashion can create something as timelessly beautiful as any great art! But of course, I am biased, I work in fashion and love fashion.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

“of course it’s happening inside your head, harry. why should that mean that it’s not real?” -dumbledore

“for a person who has experienced his buddha nature, he sees the buddha nature in everyone. for a person who is full of shit, he sees everybody as a pile of shit.” -fo yin

probably the best and hardest: “the true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.”
– albert einstein