Everything – Page 241 – A book of aphorisms
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.

Oct 172014
 

Often we think ourselves into not just error but the opposite of the truth.

Oct 162014
 

Most problems are imaginary, and many real problems can be solved by redirecting the attention devoted to the imaginary ones.

Oct 152014
 

Better that X guilty men go free than one innocent man be convicted. Solve for X.

Oct 142014
 

There are ways of putting things, and each way is a different thing.

Oct 132014
 

Sometimes it is the work of art that looks at you and finds you wanting.

Oct 102014
 

Salieri was a lot better at music than you are at anything.