Everything – Page 145 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 292018
 

A government of laws, not of men, requires suitable men.

Jun 282018
 

I don’t want you to change your opinion. I want you to abandon your opinion.

Jun 272018
 

The expressed desire to hear the unvarnished truth is among the world’s most popular lies.

Jun 262018
 

Irreverence, n.   The state or quality of not knowing what one reveres.

Jun 252018
 

One wonders what people who oppose eugenics think history is.

Jun 222018
 

It turns out to be entirely possible to know where you’re going and not where you came from, and vice versa.

Jun 212018
 

“Middle age” is the most optimistic phrase in the English language.

Jun 192018
 

There is no job so simple that its performance can be measured.

Jun 182018
 

Community college used to be high school with ashtrays, and then that was college, and then they took away the ashtrays.