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We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are - to most people - not important at all.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If I knew he loved me for my wealth, I would have told him I was richer.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never fear being wrong, just staying wrong.
— W.M. Driscoll
We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It all depends on how independent you are.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I don't represent anyone's opinion. Not even my own. I'm neutral.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
If you aren't sure of the rules then follow them. If you are sure of the rules break them.
— Euphrates Arnaut Moss
Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love at first sight? Let me just put on my glasses.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.
— Alexandre Dumas
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words ... Be not the slave of Words ...
— Thomas Carlyle
Every lesson in life is worth learning except for the ones you can't afford.
— Euphrates Arnaut Moss
It's not the early bird that gets the worm, it's the one who knows to go outside after a rainstorm.
— James Schannep
You can't have love and honor, and neither will bring you peace.
— W.M. Driscoll
You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Passionate smokers always welcome the peace-pipe without hesitation.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I have a wide circle of friends, wide enough to keep them away from me.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
You have to bow to reach the top.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
— Anatole Broyard
Water flows, but never changes. It's always H2O.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Smile out loud! Make them wonder.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
People will never get in touch with democracy. It's always surrounded by bodyguards.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
It's shameful for a devil to be good.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I have nothing to lose. I keep all my valuables in a safe.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Conflict occurswhen two pasts step
on the toes of the present. — Lera Auerbach
Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you give your best, they'll take it.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
What you'd have done do; what not delegate.
— Euphrates Arnaut Moss
You can only master something by loving it.
— Lera Auerbach
If you splurge on expensive booze you may be an alcoholic. If you go for the well on the other hand... you may be an alcoholic.
— Euphrates Arnaut Moss
Even the wheel of fortune can run over you.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
The aphorism is already a shadow of itself.
— Don Paterson
Artistry is in how you apply the tool; genius is knowing when to lift it.
— Euphrates Arnaut Moss
Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
A blink of an eye is what separates you from reality.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
— F.H. Bradley
It is up to man to be an angel or a devil! You become whatever you choose to be!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
— Edmond Jabes
Cinderella had to dress up so that the Prince could see her inner beauty.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
We haven't got a spare planet. If we had it, we would sell it long time ago.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
One cannot strategize for a hand that has yet to be dealt.
— Euphrates Arnaut Moss
Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society's disapproval.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.
— Mason Cooley
I don't have an idol. I don't like imitations.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.
— Terry Pratchett
Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.
— Mason Cooley
Knowing how to fall is much more valuable than knowing how to walk.
— Diogo Mainardi
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
— James Geary
Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.
— Marty Rubin
Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.
— Philip K. Dick
Pity is nary a friend you want to invite, nor an acquaintance you would accompany.
— Euphrates Arnaut Moss
Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Hmm,' said the King. 'I must write that down in my book of aphorisms. I don't know if it is deep, but it sounds deep.
— Stephen Mitchell
Keep trying?I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky — Ljupka Cvetanova
If you don't understand it, it's art.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.
— Patrick Rothfuss
You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll end up as a clown.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
— William Rounseville Alger
How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.
— Marina Tsvetaeva
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.
— Mason Cooley
A criminal always returns home.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.
— Michael A. Arnzen
I improvise therefore I exist!
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
'Character, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
— George Eliot
Don't let the devil fool you! Unless he's handsome.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Give a man a finger, he'll put a wedding ring on it!
— Ljupka Cvetanova
An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
— James Geary
Those who act like a rug invite being walked all over.
— Euphrates Arnaut Moss
Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Before you criticize a woman, try walking in her high heels.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel