Everything – Page 240 – A book of aphorisms
Oct 312014
 

The joy of money lies less in what one does than in what one might do.

Oct 302014
 

Where some has failed, more rarely succeeds.

Oct 292014
 

Some who earn thousands of times your income don’t deserve it, which is bad; and some do, which is worse.

Oct 282014
 

The worse the government, the longer the speeches.

Oct 272014
 

If suffering ennobles, does joy degrade?

Oct 242014
 

People are confused; it does not follow that the universe is paradoxical.

Oct 232014
 

If you aren’t supposed to use people, what do you do with them?

Oct 222014
 

What surrounds sex is serious: sex itself is ridiculous.

Oct 212014
 

Abroad we make our soldiers pretend to be policemen, and at home we let our policemen pretend to be soldiers.

Oct 202014
 

Marriages survive not on love but admiration.