Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees.
Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.
Civilization is the commercialization of survival.
Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.
Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.
Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself.
Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.
To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.
There is nothing wrong with being wrong.
For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.
What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.
Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on.
A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.
Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.
To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.
Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.
To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.
The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.
Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.