Friday, November 26, 2010

In nuce #1

The first part of an ongoing series of aphorisms. Though many are contradictory, all are words to live by.


No man is better than the next, but each is better than the last.

Speech is the death of imagination.

Excess of humility is arrogance.

Teaching is an act of vanity, and of love.

Eff the ineffable.

A promise is a threat realigned.

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few toes.

It is better to get than to receive.

The massive men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Good fiction invites re-reading; all poetry begs it.

A joke is a pun that requires a set up. A book is a collection of jokes.

Kick the can't.

Have breadth like fresh air.

None were more able than Cain.

Mediocrity is the spice of life.

No two snowflakes are unlike.

Peace is a coward's war.

The world croaks as the cynic jokes.

Fleet of foot, flight of fowl.

When in Rome, do the Romans.

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