Everything – Page 235 – A book of aphorisms
Jan 142015
 

Wanna Bet and Sticks and Stones — the modern adult would do well to recover these timeless principles of the playground.

Jan 132015
 

The best teachers and preachers are never caught at it.

Jan 122015
 

What we call realism in fiction is only a bit of reality-tinsel to decorate the old myths.

Jan 092015
 

People never appreciate how I cringe for them.

Jan 082015
 

Pretentious nonsense and pseudo-difficulty drive truly difficult problems out of circulation, as bad money drives out good.

Jan 072015
 

The artist-provocateur does more damage than he knows: he immunizes his audience against shock, and who cannot be shocked cannot be moved.

Jan 062015
 

Most of the people who have ever lived have been almost entirely inarticulate, and we know nothing about them.

Jan 052015
 

Success, n.   A not entirely unbroken record of failure.

Jan 022015
 

You call a man a cynic when you can’t call him wrong, and an idealist when you don’t want to.