EVERYTHING IS EASIER SAID THAN done. So?
Tag: pithyism
Ars Aphoristica.
Pithyism #8
THERE’S A REASON CLASSIC SONGS are classic: they sound only like themselves, and whatever comes in their wake.
Pithyism #80 Proof (or, Not A Bad Toast)
“MAY OUR LIVES BE NO sadder than necessary.”
Pithyism #60
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF a kind word — or a cruel one.
Pithyism #1:1
WHEN DOES YOUTH’S RIGHTEOUS IMPUDENCE become the status-quo’s annoyance?
Pithyism #All Together Now
A TRUE RELIGIOUS RITE IS more expression than performance.
Pithyism #1:100
IT IS DIFFICULT TO BE a friend to people and be a friend to their Institution (whether school, religious body, ideology, non-profit or dinner arrangements) when the Institution distracts from its intended focus: people.
Pithyism #23
ALL GREAT TRUTHS WERE ONCE heresies, but not all heresies become Great Truths.
N.B. I might have inadvertently nicked this from someone else, but ISTR specifically coining it after some New Age sweetness-and-lightster tried to convince Sputnik and I to junk our cars and levitate instead
Pithyism #Billions & Billions
RETRIEVING THE MORNING NEWSPAPER AFFORDS a fine slice of the constellations marching overhead, thereby demonstrating that sometimes you can do two things at once.
Pithyism #3.141
THERE IS NO BETTER BUZZ than knowing.
Pithyism #69
EVERYTHING IS INEVITABLE — BUT ONLY in hindsight. (This is the truth half-known by determinists and freewillians, and fully by those oracles of the more honest sort. You know who you are.)
Santayana Amended
THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN from history doom their children to redeem it.
(And on that unironically hopeful note, Shabbat Shalom / have a nice weekend / go Red Sox!)