Everything – Page 138 – A book of aphorisms
Oct 022018
 

Being right twice a day makes a stopped clock useless: it can’t be depended on even for the wrong time.

Oct 012018
 

By learning our own thoughts and feelings we have made ourselves only partly miserable; by learning everyone else’s we will finish the job.

Sep 282018
 

Write briefly, and risk being misunderstood; or write at length, and assure it.

Sep 272018
 

Today a man removes his headphones where once he doffed his hat.

Sep 202018
 

Modern democracy has nearly perfected itself; that the people can still occasionally make their wishes known remains its one flaw.

Sep 192018
 

Acquired taste, n.   An inclination sometimes inborn, sometimes affected, and always snobbish.