Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/r0a9zwmr · submitted 1997
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
tiny.ag/byjgwlzg · submitted 1997
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
tiny.ag/uvmow3r4 · submitted 1997
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
tiny.ag/svogwyfm · submitted 1997
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/hcrgr6oa · submitted 1997
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
tiny.ag/kteay1fd · submitted 1997
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
tiny.ag/pgsxbect · submitted 1998
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
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