Everything – Page 228 – A book of aphorisms
Apr 222015
 

Professional sports, though unpleasant, proxy for things even less pleasant.

Apr 212015
 

When I’m serious I’m partly joking, and when I’m joking I’m entirely serious.

Apr 202015
 

Love has done nothing to stop wars, but marriage has prevented quite a few.

Apr 172015
 

The triumph of physics has poisoned many disciplines, including physics.

Apr 162015
 

A book that ossifies at exactly the same rate as its readers becomes a beloved contemporary classic.

Apr 152015
 

In politics you can be right as long as you don’t care if you win, or win as long as you don’t care if you’re right.

Apr 142015
 

The weak often want to be thought wicked, but the wicked never want to be thought weak.

Apr 132015
 

Books can also change lives for the worse.

Apr 092015
 

Imitation is the most sincere, but parody is the most flattering.