Everything – Page 274 – A book of aphorisms
Jul 122013
 

Restaurants fail more frequently than gas stations because no one dreams of quitting his corporate job to open a gas station.

Jul 112013
 

If the object of desire is rich, we call it gold-digging; if handsome, lust; if clever, fascination; and if he has no discernible appeal, we call it love.

Jul 102013
 

The modern mind will countenance any explanation for what you say except that you believe it.

Jul 092013
 

The incorruptible politician merely prefers power to money.

Jul 082013
 

We can all be replaced, and we all are.

Jul 052013
 

You stir up a lot of sunken knowledge when you reorganize your library.

Jul 032013
 

Once you see human interaction as a contest to signal mating fitness, you never see it as anything else.

Jul 022013
 

A pseudo-science colonizes other disciplines; a real one sticks to its last.

Jul 012013
 

Elision is the mother of decision.