Aphorism Quotes

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

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Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.

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One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.

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Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns.

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Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.

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Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

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We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.

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Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.

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We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

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If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

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Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).

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To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

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The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.

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Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.

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Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.

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The only real reason that some relationships and marriages have not yet been ended is because in each case one of the partners has not yet found their ideal partner or someone they love or at least like.

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Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happened to them had happened to their partners, or if the fortunate things that have happened to their partners had happened to them.

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Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.

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Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.

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Some people wouldn’t still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn’t be disabled or dead.

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An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

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We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

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Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.

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The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

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Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.

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There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.

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Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

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To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

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Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there.

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It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

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You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

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Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.

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Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.

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Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

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Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

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Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.

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Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

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Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

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The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.

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By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

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We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

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Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

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Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

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Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.

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Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

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A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

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Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

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Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

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We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

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Some people will hate you for not loving them.

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We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.

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A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

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Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

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Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

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To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?

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For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.

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Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.

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Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.

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