Everything – Page 166 – A book of aphorisms
Sep 082017
 

The people who most need to be persuaded of their own stupidity have been told all their lives how clever they are.

Sep 052017
 

To discover who is preeminent in a field, ask someone who knows nothing about it.

Sep 042017
 

One must check the rise to cushion the fall.

Sep 012017
 

To obliterate an experience, describe it.

Aug 302017
 

Theories of history owe their enduring popularity to the difficulty of perceiving accident in accomplished fact.

Aug 292017
 

Inevitable, adj.   1. Devoutly wished. 2. Acutely feared.

Aug 282017
 

Believing in God is how most people remind themselves that they are not He.