Aphorisms for Our Time

[BubbleGumTiger]

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

[BubbleGumTiger]

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

[BubbleGumTiger]

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.

[BubbleGumTiger]

Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.

[BubbleGumTiger]

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

[BubbleGumTiger]

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.

[BubbleGumTiger]

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

[Space Cowboy]

Those who cannot be themselves are constantly trying to tear down those who are.

[Space Cowboy]

It is far better to be hated for what you are than to be loved forwhat you are not.

[BubbleGumTiger]

Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.

[BubbleGumTiger]

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.

[BubbleGumTiger]

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

[BubbleGumTiger]

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

[BubbleGumTiger]

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

[BubbleGumTiger]

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

[BubbleGumTiger]

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

[BubbleGumTiger]

A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.

[BubbleGumTiger]

"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

[BubbleGumTiger]

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

[BubbleGumTiger]

'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.