Everything – Page 129 – A book of aphorisms
Feb 052019
 

Pure poetry, n.   A polite term for an especially execrable piece of prose.

Feb 042019
 

Those who profess indifference to what others think ought to advertise it less.

Feb 012019
 

The old cling most desperately to life — not from belated philosophic recognition of its splendors, or fear of death, but from habit.

Jan 312019
 

American cities are dotted by hulks of jagged, rusting metal, abandoned, seemingly without function, surrounded by endless expanses of concrete. This is the public sculpture.

Jan 302019
 

To be represented is the smallest aspiration.

Jan 292019
 

If you can convince a man to believe nothing, you can convince him to believe anything.

Jan 282019
 

Progressive mores, which in the name of equality must be preached to and adopted by all, are mildly toxic to about a tenth of the population, crippling to two-thirds, and potentially fatal to the rest. For a few grifters they make a lucrative career.

Jan 252019
 

The lower the latitude, the greater the lassitude.

Jan 242019
 

An opinion not worth fearing isn’t worth having.

Jan 232019
 

The best-attested, most frequently reproduced result in social science is that social scientists do not have the faintest idea how to conduct a study.