Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
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tiny.ag/kdbyxotm · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
tiny.ag/dxokyfu8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
tiny.ag/np9dvtka · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
tiny.ag/vinogpxg · ★★☆☆ Fair (212 ratings) · submitted 1997
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
tiny.ag/apirm627 · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
tiny.ag/hq8w7xao · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
tiny.ag/dfwohelg · ★★☆☆ Fair (78 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
tiny.ag/wqt4ciab · ★★☆☆ Fair (91 ratings) · submitted 1997
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
tiny.ag/r1bfukdv · ★★☆☆ Fair (350 ratings) · submitted 1997
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
tiny.ag/q6kxew3z · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
tiny.ag/sdmeheo7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (301 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
tiny.ag/gymh6otw · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
tiny.ag/ne1vhxlr · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.
tiny.ag/vgoawlvx · ★★☆☆ Fair (357 ratings) · submitted 1997
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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