Everything – Page 169 – A book of aphorisms
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.

Jul 142017
 

Having got this world for free, we expect to pay dearly for the next.

Jul 132017
 

Everyone says what he would never do, and no one knows it.

Jul 122017
 

Flawlessness is a trivial quality in a work of art.