Everything – Page 178 – A book of aphorisms
Mar 242017
 

The people must be stupid, for they pay me no mind.

Mar 232017
 

Civilizations are created from the middle out and destroyed from the top down.

Mar 222017
 

Sarcasm is the lowest form of esotericism.

Mar 212017
 

To the horrors of war every soldier becomes inured; it is the petty harassments and nagging discomforts of war that dispirit and defeat him.

Mar 202017
 

To embrace the small truth in the views directly opposed to yours is the shortest route to more correctness, and the least often taken.

Mar 172017
 

In order that our boys shall not have died in vain, a great many of our boys die in vain.

Mar 162017
 

They make an inner desert and they call it inner peace.

Mar 152017
 

We call ideas pretty when we think they are false, and ugly when we do not care if they are true.

Mar 142017
 

Discipline, n.   A field of study in which little discipline is exhibited.

Mar 132017
 

If orchestral performances were movies, the instrumentalists would be celebrated, the conductor credited, and the composer unmentioned.