It’s a lot less fun to pursue power, wealth, and status if you can’t use them to get women.
May 032018
Getting
You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Apr 262018
The illusion of wealth comes cheap; the illusion of taste costs a fortune.
Jan 092018
The cheap stuff is far more agreeable than the idea of buying it.
Jan 012018
We admire success, and deplore most of the qualities and behavior that produce it.
Dec 212017
It is when they swear to pay the money back that you can kiss it goodbye.
Nov 242017
We spend the first half of our lives accumulating possessions and the second half getting rid of them.
Sep 272017
Not so long ago people were enslaved by other than comfort, choice, and convenience.
Aug 092017
To take a bribe and deliver nothing in return makes one no less corrupt, only less reliable.
Mar 272017
It is possible to be overprivileged, and certainly to be underprivileged, but not, it seems, to be privileged just right.
Mar 012017
Every discipline attempts to transfer sovereignty from the consumer to the producer; “professionalism” is our name for a successful coup.