Everything – Page 147 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 012018
 

To do what one intends is to be as a god.

May 312018
 

Boilerplate, n.   The section of a contract in which you waive all your rights in perpetuity.

May 302018
 

Youth has a natural horror of age, and one gradually learns to reciprocate.

May 282018
 

Almost everyone believes the world is filled with people who do evil on purpose; but not himself, and not anyone he knows.

May 252018
 

You can have loyal subordinates, or competent ones.

May 242018
 

A lot of what we refrain from doing is not wrong, just too much trouble to explain.

May 222018
 

The point of a special day for airing grievances is that all the other days are not.

May 212018
 

The dissolute and profligate can always be depended on to preach sobriety and thrift; today it is the sober and thrifty who refuse to do so.