Everything – Page 167 – A book of aphorisms
Aug 222017
 

If one’s reach should exceed one’s grasp, then it must be better to fail in large enterprises than succeed in smaller ones.

Aug 212017
 

“The check is in the mail” is sometimes true but “I was being funny” never is.

Aug 182017
 

Science-based is to science what people’s republics are to republics.

Aug 172017
 

Too little feminization prevents civilization, too much destroys it, and the trick is to find the inflection point.

Aug 162017
 

Only poor salesmen have to believe in their product.

Aug 152017
 

Great achievements do not excuse private vice, or justify it — they simply overwhelm it.

Aug 142017
 

Everyone is conservative about what he understands, and ought to be about what he does not.

Aug 112017
 

It is possible to win an argument, if you’re willing to forgo the awards ceremony.

Aug 102017
 

To be in love with love is an affliction; yet to hate it is more common, and more serious.

Aug 092017
 

To take a bribe and deliver nothing in return makes one no less corrupt, only less reliable.