Everything – Page 190 – A book of aphorisms
Oct 072016
 

If a rule is required, then its outcomes will be imperfect.

Oct 062016
 

Having life too easy dissipates more promise in America than having it too hard.

Oct 052016
 

Hair length strongly correlates with silliness in women over 40.

Oct 042016
 

If only thought were conserved like matter, if lost thoughts were transmuted instead of vanishing forever.

Oct 032016
 

Are you unprepared for it because it is out of the question, or is it out of the question because you are unprepared for it?

Sep 302016
 

You say you could never be bored or unhappy with some other person’s life, and yet how different it would be, if it were yours.

Sep 292016
 

I can skip the one book I must read if I read only one book this year, having read more than one book this year.

Sep 282016
 

The novel often triumphs as a lived experience and always fails as a recollected one.

Sep 272016
 

The thirst for equality can be slaked only by the acquisition of superiority.

Sep 262016
 

Mediocrities persist in treating geniuses as different. In fact they are only better, which is far more insulting.