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tiny.ag/ujvv0yxq · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
tiny.ag/9whxy8s7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (549 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
tiny.ag/dxbh08ml · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
tiny.ag/gvohc8br · ★★☆☆ Fair (3332 ratings) · submitted 1997
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.
tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/sq9g8eav · ★★☆☆ Fair (3330 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/t9m3smqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (1410 ratings) · submitted 1997
Women make love for love, men make love for lust.
Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
tiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1998
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
tiny.ag/a0oxkbo4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (380 ratings) · submitted 1997
I think, therefore I am.
tiny.ag/ry72cat0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
tiny.ag/gwiaxqqe · ★★☆☆ Fair (436 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
tiny.ag/tq4jumf6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (409 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/qycsaode · ★★☆☆ Fair (1009 ratings) · submitted 1997
When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yuezt1iy · ★★☆☆ Fair (377 ratings) · submitted 1997
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
tiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
tiny.ag/jx4okg6p · ★★☆☆ Fair (1050 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Michael A. Loduha
When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.
Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/gu6tloek · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
tiny.ag/o5og0ube · ★★☆☆ Fair (692 ratings) · submitted 1997
A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.
tiny.ag/la8pw7kl · ★★☆☆ Fair (381 ratings) · submitted 1997
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!