Aphorism of the Day

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Delmore Schwartz, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.

Count Jean Baptiste Milhoud, in Life and Death

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Ambrose Bierce, in Wisdom and Ignorance

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Gore Vidal, in Altruism and Cynicism

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato, The Republic, in Wisdom and Ignorance

If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.

Unknown, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation