Everything – Page 288 – A book of aphorisms
Dec 272012
 

In hell you are forced to reread continuously all the books you loved when you were twenty.

Dec 262012
 

The more hands your opinions have passed through, the more likely you are to regard them as your own.

Dec 252012
 

We call past ages unhappy with no better warrant than supposing that we would have been unhappy in them.

Dec 242012
 

Youth is lost like money — gradually, then suddenly.

Dec 212012
 

Our collective delusion that we can fix most problems is another problem we can’t fix.

Dec 202012
 

In 1870 Henry Adams wrote that everything was respectable, and nothing amusing. Today everything is amusing, and nothing respectable.

Dec 172012
 

A leading cause of insanity in America is the prospect of appearing on television.