Everything – Page 91 – A book of aphorisms
Jul 242020
 

There are two fundamental types of crazy women: one wears her hair much too long, and the other much too short.

Jul 232020
 

Dr. Seuss names his creatures Thing 1 and Thing 2 to signify that they are not distinct in any important way; statistics names its errors Type 1 and Type 2 to signify that they are.

Jul 222020
 

Those who cannot judge what to believe must resort to whom.

Jul 212020
 

“Artisanal” is a word to dignify the menial labor that is all that most of the workforce can manage; we will need more such words.

Jul 202020
 

It doesn’t matter how many people hate you, provided it’s for different sets of mutually exclusive reasons.

Jul 172020
 

Some are born incapable, some achieve incapacity, and some have incapacity thrust upon them.

Jul 162020
 

The biggest business in the world is allowing people to express thoughts and feelings that they are unable to articulate.

Jul 142020
 

Thinking, like plumbing, is something we rarely do for ourselves; but no one imagines that he does his own plumbing.

Jul 132020
 

Many supposed gold-diggers are digging not for gold but for the capacities that amassed it.