Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/sdc7t2fc · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
tiny.ag/8ebocmyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (174 ratings) · submitted 1997
Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
tiny.ag/renqzacv · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
You're a genius if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning is electricity -- but you're an idiot if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning can kill you.
Unknown, (from Mad Magazine), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/gelcd01a · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
You should emulate your heroes, but don't carry it too far. Especially if they are dead.
tiny.ag/gpnuvt0q · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
tiny.ag/snlzrsu1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (741 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/imyvlox8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (481 ratings) · submitted 1997
Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/0516mcy2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1042 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Chris Blake
The majority of the time, the thing that gets in the way of success... is your brain.
tiny.ag/zfe8lgun · ★★☆☆ Fair (50 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
tiny.ag/lc1buagj · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
You cannot produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women.
tiny.ag/tnfwhxlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (185 ratings) · submitted 1997
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
tiny.ag/qhi9mj1t · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
tiny.ag/hhdwpvkc · ★★☆☆ Fair (182 ratings) · submitted 1997
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of them absent.
tiny.ag/uxknfqoq · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/tbra32py · ★★☆☆ Fair (306 ratings) · submitted 1997
Use soft words and hard arguments.
tiny.ag/hzol4xrd · ★★☆☆ Fair (171 ratings) · submitted 1997
Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.
tiny.ag/k41czawu · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
tiny.ag/xjrw4zcp · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.
tiny.ag/qtbtjqxs · ★★☆☆ Fair (185 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.
tiny.ag/f65xdmkd · ★★☆☆ Fair (182 ratings) · submitted 1997
You are not what you think you are, you are not what they think you are, but you could be what you think they think you are.
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