Anyone know any good aphorisms, let's hear them...
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Story of my life:
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing. Werner von Braun
All cats are grey in the dark. Benjamin Franklin
I came. I saw. I conquered.
Oh come on people, this thread has awesome potential!
-Children and fools tell the truth.
-A rolling stone gathers no moss.
-A loveless life is a living death.
-A friend to all is a friend to none.
-A tree is known by its fruit.
-A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
There are many more. Let’s keep them coming.
- A little violence never hurt anyone.
[about ending a sentence with a preposition] It is a rule up with which I shall not put.—Churchill
“Speak softly and carry a big stick.“T. Roosevelt borrowed that from an African saying, I think.
“God does not play dice with the universe.” A Einstein
“A promise not to change is a promise not to grow.”
“No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear”
– Too much power is never enough….Mark Donohue on the Can Am Porsche 917.
—“99% of the game is half mental.”
—“It gets late early out there.”
—“It’s like déjà vu all over again.”
^^^Yogi Berra
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -Einstein
I feel like these are just quotes…
@queen, Where do you draw the line between aphorism and quote?
I believe that an aphorism gives me advice.
I thought it was just a pithy comment on life.
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