Everything – Page 167 – A book of aphorisms
Aug 242017
 

Before one wearies of the world one wearies of oneself.

Aug 222017
 

If one’s reach should exceed one’s grasp, then it must be better to fail in large enterprises than succeed in smaller ones.

Aug 212017
 

“The check is in the mail” is sometimes true but “I was being funny” never is.

Aug 182017
 

Science-based is to science what people’s republics are to republics.

Aug 172017
 

Too little feminization prevents civilization, too much destroys it, and the trick is to find the inflection point.

Aug 162017
 

Only poor salesmen have to believe in their product.

Aug 152017
 

Great achievements do not excuse private vice, or justify it — they simply overwhelm it.

Aug 142017
 

Everyone is conservative about what he understands, and ought to be about what he does not.