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tiny.ag/bmdpgrs0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1377 ratings) · submitted 1997
Let's have some new clichés.
tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · ★★☆☆ Fair (280 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
tiny.ag/5gcdbjbx · ★★☆☆ Fair (413 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1078 ratings) · submitted 1997
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (403 ratings) · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/06lybgnu · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1998
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/5x9cvfxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (242 ratings) · submitted 1997
I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
tiny.ag/ultj3i4v · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
tiny.ag/ooxlc4p0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (199 ratings) · submitted 1997
Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
tiny.ag/raffprlg · ★★☆☆ Fair (318 ratings) · submitted 1997
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
tiny.ag/rnxbf2ho · ★★☆☆ Fair (512 ratings) · submitted 1998
I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.
tiny.ag/zwylfryx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1391 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/nxwvhtlg · ★★☆☆ Fair (507 ratings) · submitted 1997
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · ★★☆☆ Fair (310 ratings) · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/uz9atcqm · ★★☆☆ Fair (278 ratings) · submitted 1997
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · ★★☆☆ Fair (3008 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (1649 ratings) · submitted 1999
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1554 ratings) · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/dlefcimh · ★★☆☆ Fair (589 ratings) · submitted 1997
Comedy is tragedy plus time.