Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/zv26ipgu · ★★☆☆ Fair (84 ratings) · submitted 1997
Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
tiny.ag/qn68ckxs · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
tiny.ag/ifr4pyih · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/wiq0woar · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.
tiny.ag/vtq15sgk · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
tiny.ag/kjm5ugma · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
tiny.ag/uvpjrb6x · ★★☆☆ Fair (721 ratings) · submitted 1997
Desperation is like stealing from the mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
tiny.ag/axfjdopk · ★★☆☆ Fair (143 ratings) · submitted 1997
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
tiny.ag/yqo9cx7w · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
tiny.ag/93thhysu · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
tiny.ag/hd1r4yfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
tiny.ag/impebxsb · ★★☆☆ Fair (78 ratings) · submitted 1997
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
tiny.ag/6wplp1s3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.
tiny.ag/zpsqkb73 · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.
tiny.ag/fwsozshx · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/9nbvii3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (39 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't think, just do.
tiny.ag/m5vupi74 · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.
tiny.ag/jlevctud · ★★☆☆ Fair (45 ratings) · submitted 1997
Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
tiny.ag/s4bygqtn · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
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