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We are told...

We are told...

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because...

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We are fickle...

We are fickle...

We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that...

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Sexual liberation, as...

Sexual liberation, as...

Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate...

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Rape is a...

Rape is a...

Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize...

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A funeral eulogy...

A funeral eulogy...

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

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Perseverance is the...

Perseverance is the...

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is...

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Research is a...

Research is a...

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

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. . ....

. . ....

. . . if those only wrote, who were sure of being read, we should have fewer authors; and the shelves of libraries...

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A fool bolts...

A fool bolts...

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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The day knowledge...

The day knowledge...

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social...

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When a man...

When a man...

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to...

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What's important is...

What's important is...

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. . . . The people have...

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The freedom that...

The freedom that...

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and...

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As with most...

As with most...

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more...

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Fame is no...

Fame is no...

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. . . suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than...

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Imitation is the...

Imitation is the...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Source: Lacon, Vol. I.
-- Charles...

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Silence is foolish...

Silence is foolish...

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Source: In Correct...

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The news is...

The news is...

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new...

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Spleen can subsist...

Spleen can subsist...

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.

Source: On Wit and Humour.
-- William...

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All. . ....

All. . ....

All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...

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