aphorisms

Even the wheel of fortune can run over you.

In searching for myself, I have created myself.

No air, no balloons!

Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.

A criminal always returns home.

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

To have luck and fail to act on it is tantamount to not having luck at all. In fact, it was worse. Barnes thought back to his self-help manuals. They all proclaimed with compelling force the necessity of recognizing opportunity then seizing it when it stuck.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves _ and other animals.

A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work.

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people__ only reason for not abandoning e-books.

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society__ disapproval.

Life is a circle. It spins you around.

Most sexually adventurous women want a man who regards cunnilingus as a basic woman right.

Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!