“Nothing
prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so.”
La Rochefoucauld, the Gold Standard of epigrammists
“There are ways of curing madness, but none of righting the wrong-headed.”
La Rochefoucauld
“It is not possible to enumerate all
the kinds of vanity.”
La Rochefoucauld
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy
has no pleasures.”
Samuel Johnson
“Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.”
Lichtenberg
“It is better to have your enemies
inside the tent pissing out than to have them outside the tent pissing in.”
Lyndon Johnson
“The difference between the almost-right
word and the right word is really a large matter. It’s the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”
Mark Twain
“Always do right. This will gratify
some people and astonish the rest.”
Mark Twain
“All of us lie in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
And from my native
city, some good advice.
“First, stick with the same drink
you started with. By that I mean that if you started the evening drinking champagne, beer and frozen daquiris, stick with
champagne, beer and frozen daquiris the rest of the evening....”
Mike Royko on avoiding hangovers
“Never
play cards with a man called Doc, and never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”
Nelson Algren
“An honest man is always a child.”
Martial
“Those who the gods love grow young.”
Oscar Wilde
“Do not let yourself be deluded by
anyone; this is all I teach.”
Rinzai
“I’ve created a good environment. All I have to do is think and not be influenced by
others.”
Warren Buffett
Art is the only serious thing in the world.
And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Oscar Wilde
One should always be a little improbable.
Oscar Wilde
And
a few proverbs:
“When
the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.”
Italian saying
“Eventually you have to take the stone out of your shoe.”
Old saying
“Pissing in your pants
will only keep you warm for so long.”
Danish saying
