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- Updated: 2024-12-25.




1. Unlocking Wisdom, One Witty Aphorism at a Time!


Reversing is not something I look forward to.


It's better to be kissed by a fool than to be fooled by a kiss.


Love is like a shadow, when you chase it, it runs away. When you turn back and walk away, it follows you.


Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.


Sometimes when they stop talking to you they start talking about you.


No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln


A mistake which makes you humble is much better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.


“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
—H. P. Lovecraft


A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended.
—Evan Esar


A fine is a tax when you’ve been doing something wrong. A tax is a fine you get when you’ve been doing something right.



2. Serving Up Sage Advice with a Twist of Irony!


Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson


If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Clint Eastwood


“The dimensions of what we have fucked up in this country are beyond any coherent explanation.”

—Hunter S Thompson


When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West


Your childhood ends the day you realise that sleep is a reward and not a punishment.


Success is like pregnancy.
Everybody congratulates you but nobody knows how many times you got fucked to achieve it.


Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

- William James


When tyranny becomes law,rebellion becomes duty.
Thomas Jefferson.


"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounding yourself with assholes." - William Gibson


If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

—Luis Bunuel



3. Aphorisms and Sayings: Where Paradoxical Wisdom Reigns Supreme!


"There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions


To Succeed In All Aspects Of Life;You Need A WISHBONE,A BACKBONE & A FUNNYBONE!!!


"The Path of Increase is slow but the Road to ruin is Swift" Lucius Seneca.


There are no truths, only perspectives.


'You may live forever' is more of a curse than a blessing.


“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde


“A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche


I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.


My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb.


Lazy is such an ugly word I prefer selective participation 😎



4. Quirky Aphorisms and Sayings: A Playground for the Witty Mind!


“Some people are so poor, all they have is money”
-Bob Marley


“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer


"Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power."
-Oscar Wilde


“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”
~ Sylvia Plath


“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca


Your body is not a temple,
it's an amusement park.
Enjoy the ride.
~Anthony Bourdain


I sleep with life and death in the same bed.
— Bob Dylan


There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre


“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass


"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up."
~ Jim Morrison



5. Embrace the Paradox: Unveiling the Hidden Truths in Aphorisms!


“for me obedience to another
is the decay of self”
― Charles Bukowski


What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
-George Eliot


Education is not the learning of Facts But, the training of Minds to Think. Albert Einstein


"Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards."
- Vladimir Nabokov


“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
― Oscar Wilde


How to be Happy ?
- Stop expecting anything from anyone and see the magic yourself.


It'll be alright in the end...and if it's not alright, then it's not the end yet.... (Exotic Marigold Hotel)


"Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks." ~Malcolm X


"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."
-Ernest Hemingway


“Only a neutral, who is indifferent to the stake and perhaps to all stakes, can appreciate aesthetically the grandeur of a fine disaster.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Saint Genet



6. Aphorisms and Quotes: Where Contradictions Spark Enlightenment!


"I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own."
Nikola Tesla


“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan


“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe


“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson


“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember


“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe


“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard


The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne


Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
Confucius


To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Lao Tzu



7. Aphorisms: The Art of Puzzling Wisdom with a Dash of Humor!


Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein


The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts


He who pays the piper calls the tune.

Measure twice cut once. 🔪


Don't judge a book by its cover.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.

Know which side your bread is buttered on. 🧈


A penny saved is a penny earned.

All things come to those who wait.

Don't hide your light under a bushel.


The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. 🐴


Eat to live; don't live to eat.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. 👨‍🏫


All that glitters isn't gold.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

East or west, home is best. 🏡


You need to take a bull by the horns, and a man by his word.

A barking dog never bites.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 💖


You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.

You made your bed, now lie in it. 🛌


8. Irony Unleashed: Unveiling the Unexpected in Aphorisms and Quotes!


He who hesitates is lost.

If you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. 😥


Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.

Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself.

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another 🏃‍♀️


Actions speak louder than words.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.




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