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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (314 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Megan

To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.

[aphorist] Anatole France, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (271 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

[aphorist] Walt Disney, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (713 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

[aphorist] G. C. Lichtenberg, in [category] Art and Literature and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (261 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

[aphorist] Cicero, in [category] War and Peace

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (251 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

[aphorist] Benjamin Disraeli, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (91 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

[aphorist] Thomas Alva Edison, in [category] Success and Failure and [category] Work and Recreation

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (93 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

[aphorist] Doug Horton, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (3066 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.

[aphorist] Erkki J. Jyrkkanen, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (729 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (168 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

[aphorist] Winston Churchill, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (39 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

[aphorist] Phyllis Diller, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (202 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

[aphorist] Anatole France, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (125 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

[aphorist] Winston Churchill, in [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (924 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

[aphorist] Joseph Conrad, in [category] Art and Literature

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (186 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

[aphorist] Albert Einstein, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Success and Failure

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (98 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997  · 

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (788 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

[aphorist] Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in [category] Work and Recreation

Catch-22 (paperback)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (217 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.

[aphorist] Friedrich Nietzsche, in [category] Science and Religion

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (16 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

[aphorist] Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (109 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

[aphorist] Frederick the Great, in [category] Law and Politics

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