Everything – Page 50 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 292021
 

There’s no point in having opinions unless at least a few of them are indefensible.

Jun 252021
 

Every place becomes less attractive when it stops excluding the riff-raff, and in a democracy not excluding the riff-raff is a bedrock principle.

Jun 242021
 

Most laws, and indeed most rules, exist to remind you who’s in charge.

Jun 222021
 

Having It All — in which the first word represents desultory acquisition, the second conformity, and the third inability to choose.

Jun 212021
 

The more that is shown, the less that is suggested; and to show everything, suggesting nothing, is pornography, regardless of the subject.

Jun 172021
 

If everyone were morally gray, there would remain the question of shade.