Come here and say that.
Those who question everything and those who question nothing deserve each other.
Hope is to the young what nostalgia is to the old.
Academics learn more and more about less and less. School pupils learn less and less about more and more.
Indifference is the cement holding society together.
An open mind is a means not an end.
A litigious society undermines itself because the fear of litigation keeps us all dishonest.
Every relationship blossoms with time, so long as you're no longer in it.
Public authorities work hardest at getting the wrong things right.
Hobbes was wrong. Thanks to modern medicine, life is nasty, brutish and long.
An opinion is no better or worse for the strength with which it is held or for the degree of offence taken at it.
We are less bundles of neuroses than bundles of diagnoses.
Excellent. Reminds me of Karl Kraus: "Diagnosis is one of the commonest diseases."
... and admits of no cure!
If dogs are Man's best friend they’re even less choosy than we are.
The purpose of society is not to validate whatever we choose to do with our lives, but to enable us to have a grown up conversation about it.
Such is the crisis of masculinity that it is more often women who marry their mothers.
Loners work out too late that they have to live with themselves.
Parents are for life, not just for Christmas.
Little Englanders fail to see that Europeans are as grateful for the English Channel as they are.
The crowning achievement homophobia to date has been convincing gays that they should want to marry.
Narcissism is vanity without the benefit of a mirror.
A great part of being an educator is to elicit things that people don't think they know.
In an education system obsessed with grades, the examined life is not worth living.
The best hypocrites never lie.
On the eighth day the Devil rested.
The laughable and the funny are growing ever further apart.
The British have God to thank that we can laugh at ourselves, but only ourselves to thank that there's so much to laugh about.
No case of dumbing down is so incontrovertible that the most eminent academic in the field won’t deny it.
Either all French philosophers have the same translator or none of them can write.
Man was born free, but is everywhere for sale.
The most successful fraudsters must first deceive themselves.
Many kind and decent people believe things that make us shudder, while many selfish people are full of beautiful ideals.
Summer days are long, but summer months are short.
A stranger is a friend you’ve known too long.
An optimist is someone who reframes delayed ejaculation as delayed gratification.
The saddest thing about democracy is that the best people in it are likely to run from public office.
Emote and survive!
Stand up and be discounted.
Bureaucracy attains perfection when it administers things it no longer does.
The first maxim of bureaucracy is "If it's not worth doing, it's worth doing well." The second is "And vice versa."
Never trust a man who doesn't drink, and never trust one who does if he's pissed.
Don't criticise ambiguity: it's not all it seems.
Health and Safety, with its wild eyed zealots and its doe-eyed enforcers, is the only religion left.
There are none so blind as those who will not hear.
Knowing the punchline before you deliver it has spoiled many a good joke.
Nostalgia lives only where history is dead
The art of passing exams is to imply you know more than you are willing to divulge.
I'm an optimist, which means I'm a knickers half-down man.
Religion is proof that there is no God.
Those who question everything and those who question nothing deserve each other.
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ReplyDeleteEvery relationship blossoms with time, so long as you're no longer in it.
ReplyDeletePublic authorities work hardest at getting the wrong things right.
ReplyDeleteHobbes was wrong. Thanks to modern medicine, life is nasty, brutish and long.
ReplyDeleteAn opinion is no better or worse for the strength with which it is held or for the degree of offence taken at it.
ReplyDeleteWe are less bundles of neuroses than bundles of diagnoses.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. Reminds me of Karl Kraus: "Diagnosis is one of the commonest diseases."
Delete... and admits of no cure!
DeleteIf dogs are Man's best friend they’re even less choosy than we are.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of society is not to validate whatever we choose to do with our lives, but to enable us to have a grown up conversation about it.
ReplyDeleteSuch is the crisis of masculinity that it is more often women who marry their mothers.
ReplyDeleteLoners work out too late that they have to live with themselves.
ReplyDeleteParents are for life, not just for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteLittle Englanders fail to see that Europeans are as grateful for the English Channel as they are.
ReplyDeleteThe crowning achievement homophobia to date has been convincing gays that they should want to marry.
ReplyDeleteNarcissism is vanity without the benefit of a mirror.
ReplyDeleteA great part of being an educator is to elicit things that people don't think they know.
ReplyDeleteIn an education system obsessed with grades, the examined life is not worth living.
ReplyDeleteThe best hypocrites never lie.
ReplyDeleteOn the eighth day the Devil rested.
ReplyDeleteThe laughable and the funny are growing ever further apart.
ReplyDeleteThe British have God to thank that we can laugh at ourselves, but only ourselves to thank that there's so much to laugh about.
ReplyDeleteNo case of dumbing down is so incontrovertible that the most eminent academic in the field won’t deny it.
ReplyDeleteEither all French philosophers have the same translator or none of them can write.
ReplyDeleteMan was born free, but is everywhere for sale.
ReplyDeleteThe most successful fraudsters must first deceive themselves.
ReplyDeleteMany kind and decent people believe things that make us shudder, while many selfish people are full of beautiful ideals.
ReplyDeleteSummer days are long, but summer months are short.
ReplyDeleteA stranger is a friend you’ve known too long.
ReplyDeleteAn optimist is someone who reframes delayed ejaculation as delayed gratification.
ReplyDeleteThe saddest thing about democracy is that the best people in it are likely to run from public office.
ReplyDeleteEmote and survive!
ReplyDeleteStand up and be discounted.
ReplyDeleteBureaucracy attains perfection when it administers things it no longer does.
ReplyDeleteThe first maxim of bureaucracy is "If it's not worth doing, it's worth doing well." The second is "And vice versa."
ReplyDeleteNever trust a man who doesn't drink, and never trust one who does if he's pissed.
ReplyDeleteDon't criticise ambiguity: it's not all it seems.
ReplyDeleteHealth and Safety, with its wild eyed zealots and its doe-eyed enforcers, is the only religion left.
ReplyDeleteThere are none so blind as those who will not hear.
ReplyDeleteKnowing the punchline before you deliver it has spoiled many a good joke.
ReplyDeleteNostalgia lives only where history is dead
ReplyDeleteThe art of passing exams is to imply you know more than you are willing to divulge.
ReplyDeleteI'm an optimist, which means I'm a knickers half-down man.
ReplyDeleteReligion is proof that there is no God.
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