Everything – Page 202 – A book of aphorisms
Apr 152016
 

If we really watched the weather we would talk about it even more than we do.

Apr 142016
 

Ordinary people claim extraordinary origins for the same reason extraordinary people claim ordinary ones.

Apr 132016
 

If you find an argument difficult to answer, it might be true.

Apr 122016
 

Only the young die suddenly; the rest of us die slowly, long before we expire.

Apr 112016
 

The most vicious arguments are over how to count things.

Apr 082016
 

To lie to children efficiently you need school; to lie to them uniformly you need public school.

Apr 072016
 

If all writing were scrupulously edited for spelling and grammar, it would be just about as bad.

Apr 062016
 

To believe again is almost unheard of; to believe still is as common as dirt.

Apr 052016
 

You don’t signal your opinions, you signal with them.

Apr 042016
 

Hypochondriacs also get sick, and paranoids also have enemies.