Everything – Page 181 – A book of aphorisms
Feb 062017
 

Classroom, n. A factory that turns imperishable works of the human spirit into assignments.

Feb 032017
 

The only hope for truly execrable prose is to call it poetry and break the lines in odd places.

Feb 022017
 

We speak of death, yet dying is all we know.

Jan 312017
 

We are constantly warned against sunk cost, yet sunk belief is so much more expensive.

Jan 302017
 

As unfair inherited advantages go, brains beat hell out of money.

Jan 272017
 

We are told that the enemy is privilege; in fact it is distinction.

Jan 262017
 

The demand for revelation has not slackened; the churches have merely lost their monopoly.

Jan 252017
 

Most of us have finally learned to stop glamorizing poverty; now if we could only learn to stop glamorizing wealth.