inverse aphorisms
- The early Worm is caught by the Bird.
- If life gives you lemons, be glad you are not among the dyslectic, who get melons instead....
- Spilt milk is worth crying over, because otherwise, who will clean it up?
- A stitch in time requires that you do it tomorrow.
- You're only as old as you look.
- Last one to Nirvana is a rotten Egg.
- *If we didn't count our eggs before they hatch, how would we know which hen to throw out?
*...thanks to Dianne of Phoenix
- The claim that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence is extraordinary.
*...thanks to John of Washington, DC
Kindly submitted by Leonid S. Sukhorukov
- Modesty is the shortest route to obscurity. But once famous, you can afford to become modest.
- Life is the distance between dreams and reality.
- It's in our nature to make mistakes, that is why we refuse to accept them.
- When we talk of tomorrow the past awakes.
- The main gift of democracy is the freedom to demand it.
- An aphorism is a one-line novel.
- Over-optimism - down in a puddle but up in the reflected clouds.
(Book of aphorisms of a lifetime "All About Everything" by Leonid S. Sukhorukov, UK, 2005)