Everything – Page 227 – A book of aphorisms
May 062015
 

Every party looks its best out of power.

May 052015
 

Now we say that we do not understand what we only disapprove, and soon we truly will not understand.

May 042015
 

Being a sports fan is like chewing audibly — a mildly irritating but harmless backwardness that one charitably overlooks.

May 012015
 

To make a man miserable, forget his future, just poison his past.

Apr 302015
 

One cannot read journalism without being struck by how often journalism is its subject.

Apr 292015
 

The trouble with physics is that it doesn’t scale.

Apr 282015
 

When people say that you’re consistent they mean that you’re deranged.

Apr 272015
 

It is a grievous error to regard the principle of first doing no harm as applying only, or especially, to doctors.

Apr 232015
 

There is almost no contemporary imbecility that cannot be found in Rousseau.