APHORISMS

APHOHISM : a concise statement of a principle
                              : a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment
                              : an adage
The following are taken from various sources.
 
Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right. (P. Drucker)
I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. (George Carlin)
At the end of all our wanderings, we will arrive at the place we started, and know it for the first time (T. S. Eliot)
It is always easier for one man to solve another man's problem. (Chinese Proverb)
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. (Mark Twain)
Amazing the advances we make in science and the primitive uses we find for them. (Gil Grissom)
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. (Steven Wright)
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
The average person thinks he isn't. (Father Larry Lorenzoni)
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. (Fiedrich Hegel)
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. (Woody Allen)
Half of the people in the world are below average.
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. (John Erskine)
He who laughs last thinks slowest
If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation. (David Brent)
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. (Michelangelo Buonarroti)
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. (Abraham Lincoln)
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. (Paul Valery)
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. (Albert Einstein)
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (H. Berlioz)
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth. (Kahlil Gibran)
A leader who keeps his ear to the ground allows his rear end to become a target. (Angie Papadakis)
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. (Jonathan Kozol)
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. (George Bernard Shaw)
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. (Ian L. Fleming)
Beware, no matter his faith, the man who presumes to tell you what God wants. (Ralph Peters)
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. (Steven Wright)
For every complicated problem there is a simple, easy to understand, wrong answer. (Anonymous)
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. (Ram Dass)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. (Aldous Huxley)
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. (Isaac Asimov)
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. (H. H. Munro (Saki))
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. (John A. Shedd)
A theologian is like a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat which isn't there - and finding it!
There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Edith Wharton)
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. (George Burns)
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. (Plato)
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. (Japanese proverb)
The secret of getting things done is to act! (Dante Alighieri)
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. (Arnold H. Glasow)
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. (Groucho Marx)
The big thieves hang the little ones. (Czech proverb)
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. (General Douglas MacArthur)

Smiley Face