Top Axiom Quotes

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only p...

Axiom Definition

(a.) A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

(a.) An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling i...

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own mo...

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.