Water flows, but never changes. It's always H2O.

“Some women walk towards a better future. Others have chauffeurs.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you send someone a snarky Tweet, does that make you an Angry Bird?”

— Avram Ohm

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he was once…

— David Carr

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Never fear being wrong, just staying wrong.”

— W.M. Driscoll

This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make…

— Francis Bacon Sr

“You have to bow to reach the top.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and…

— Hermann Hesse

“Being young is having the world by the tail Growing up is tracing it to your own posterior”

— W.M. Driscoll

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

— Jessie Redmon Fauset