Behind every wise child are several foolish adults.
Oct 052017
Oct 042017
Wives who could have married better tend to be lenient with their husbands; the vicious shrews are the ones who couldn’t have.
Oct 032017
After an act of intellectual malpractice so egregious that nothing can excuse it, there is only one thing to say: “My point still stands.”
Oct 022017
Men rally most readily for what can be immediately done and never undone — a rescue, say, or a lynching.
Sep 292017
Universal literacy guarantees an imbecile press.
Sep 282017
It is easy to mistake the destruction of one’s world-view for the destruction of the world.
Sep 272017
Not so long ago people were enslaved by other than comfort, choice, and convenience.
Sep 262017
To become a god, first stay out of sight.
Sep 252017
Actual tyrannies require courage to oppose.
Sep 222017
It would have occurred to approximately no one in history to ask if what he was doing made him happy.