Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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101–120 (377)
tiny.ag/vaj63mlc · ★★☆☆ Fair (428 ratings) · submitted 1997
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/zvet9opr · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
tiny.ag/ajoczguy · ★★☆☆ Fair (351 ratings) · submitted 1997
Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (the Susie Derkins character), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/vpdlcnc4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.
tiny.ag/m3n54rvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
tiny.ag/kzayik2y · ★★☆☆ Fair (47 ratings) · submitted 1997
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
tiny.ag/ghr75dcd · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/30roecxw · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
tiny.ag/cgb5omnm · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
They are able because they think they are able.
tiny.ag/n3oab9iu · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
tiny.ag/h5blv72l · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
tiny.ag/6ksjcdo8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
tiny.ag/5wea9qlk · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
tiny.ag/6wwft1cd · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
tiny.ag/cwprmiyl · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
tiny.ag/1kqijph2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
tiny.ag/uetklpkx · ★★☆☆ Fair (260 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power of the greatest obstacle.
tiny.ag/7kxpl9yw · ★★☆☆ Fair (342 ratings) · submitted 1997
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
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