Everything – Page 178 – A book of aphorisms
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.

Mar 102017
 

You can’t tell a man what he doesn’t know he doesn’t know.

Mar 092017
 

We have a lot of use for computers, but they will not have much use for us.