Everything – Page 158 – A book of aphorisms
Dec 252017
 

The dots are mostly real, the connections mostly imagined.

Dec 222017
 

Today we publish all of our thoughts, except the interesting ones.

Dec 212017
 

It is when they swear to pay the money back that you can kiss it goodbye.

Dec 202017
 

America has allowed countless uneducated and unskilled people to become uneducated and unskilled people who have gone to college.

Dec 192017
 

Whatever the fanatic permits himself is a duty: whatever he denies himself is a crime.

Dec 182017
 

The consolation prize for being out of power is unswerving commitment to timeless civic principles.

Dec 152017
 

Persistent detractors are a mark of distinction, as everyone discovers when he acquires them.

Dec 142017
 

The conservative is a degenerate reactionary who, unable to decide where to set the clock, defaults to now.

Dec 132017
 

Never read your old writing. It will displease you, or worse, please you.