Everything – Page 279 – A book of aphorisms
May 072013
 

Small men flee from a generalization like small animals from a sudden noise — it might not mean danger, but why take a chance?

May 062013
 

Print overawes the illiterate just as machinery overawes the savage.

May 032013
 

Nothing so distresses the disciple as the master changing his mind.

May 022013
 

Spouses never quite forgive each other their existence before they met.

May 012013
 

Many privileges are granted on the implied condition that they will not be exercised.

Apr 302013
 

The stupid delude themselves that anything is possible; the clever, that whatever they cannot do cannot be done.

Apr 292013
 

The author who displays his library is like the suspect who leads police to the scene of the crime.

Apr 262013
 

Computers more readily imitate our intelligence than our stupidity.