Top Aphorists Quotes

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.

Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.

It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.

Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.