aphorisms

Discussion in 'Esther's Follies' started by huisache, Jan 20, 2015.

  1. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Jesus Christ: "The meek shall inherit the Earth."

    J. Paul Getty: "The meek shall inherit the Earth......but not the mineral rights."
     
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  2. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    The early worm gets the bird, too.
     
  3. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    The mouse gets caught in the trap because he doesn’t understand why the cheese is free.
     
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  4. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    In a drought the trees pay the dogs
     
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  5. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    I voted the other day and it was harder than giving a prostate exam to a bobcat

    I could not bring myself to vote for anybody for president
     
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  6. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    When is A Door not a door?

    when it is a poem by Wallace Stevens
     
  7. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    If you invite enough clowns a circus will break out
     
  8. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    Eternity lasts a long time, especially when you get near the end
     
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  9. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    Never interrupt an enemy who is making an error
     
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  10. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    Awareness of larger themes was not something we went in for where I am from

    ———Thomas McGuane
     
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  11. Hideo Gump Jr.

    Hideo Gump Jr. Summer Soldier and Sunshine Patriot

    Time flies like an arrow.
    Fruit flies like bananas.
     
  12. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    I don’t think man will become extinct in my lifetime.
     
  13. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    Time flies like an arrow.
    Time runners like a coach.
     
  14. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    In man’s struggle with the world, bet on the world——-Kafka
     
  15. Driver 8

    Driver 8 Amor Fati

    Six-thirty is the best time on the clock hands down
     
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  16. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    you get the most flak when you are over a high value target
     
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  17. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    the upper crust is held together by crumbs and dough
     
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  18. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    just because one mirage eludes you does not mean you should not pursue the
    rest.------Huisache

    move most gently if move you must----Yeats
     
  19. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    nothing is inevitable until it happens
     
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  20. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    The smartest of a large number of hamsters is still a hamster-----Fred Reed
     
  21. Driver 8

    Driver 8 Amor Fati

    The humble wish to be exalted for their humility
     
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