Everything – Page 153 – A book of aphorisms
Mar 092018
 

It is almost no time at all between not being permitted to dissent and not being permitted to abstain.

Mar 082018
 

The slavish conformist is readily identified by his outsized pride in his independent mind.

Mar 072018
 

Prose should rarely be poetic, and poetry never.

Mar 052018
 

Progress in philosophy is more plausible arguments in support of more absurd propositions.

Mar 022018
 

Clever women like to be told that they are beautiful, and beautiful women that they are clever.

Mar 012018
 

Few enjoy violence neat, but stir in a little righteousness and it makes a popular cocktail.

Feb 282018
 

The excuse is never buried more than three reasons deep.

Feb 272018
 

Professing communism never saved a kulak, and professing Nazism never saved a Jew. Only the religious fanatics are that sporting.

Feb 262018
 

Without the will to fire the gun is no use.