Everything – Page 169 – A book of aphorisms
Jul 282017
 

Not every aversion is a fear, and not every fear is a phobia.

Jul 272017
 

It doesn’t matter what is on television; what matters is that it is on television.

Jul 262017
 

By the time we are old enough to say what we please we have lost the habit.

Jul 252017
 

If women use sex to get attention, men will use attention to get sex.

Jul 242017
 

Without the feeling of freedom, slavery is not complete.

Jul 212017
 

Today all government is popular government — if not by the people, then in their name.

Jul 202017
 

The likelihood that a new scientific finding is true varies inversely with your desire to talk about it at parties.

Jul 192017
 

Where others regard us as of no use, we fancy ourselves despised.

Jul 182017
 

Men want most to be useful, but will settle, if thwarted, for destructive.

Jul 172017
 

Power reveals; and absolute power reveals absolutely.