Category: Aphorisms

The closer to sunset, the longer the shadow.

The world’s rarest punctuation mark is the necessary semicolon.

Most old men have few enemies.

Regret is a suitcase packed with the clothes of excuses.

If you never wake before dawn you’ll never find yourself in a duel.

Balboa was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean, but he was executed as a traitor and killed by decapitation. It took three strokes of the ax to remove his head from his body. And yet, even with all that, people still can’t remember his full name.

If an opera doesn’t end with a death, it’s just a weak story with loud music.

The ruins of the Colosseum are greater than the Colosseum ever was.

To the youth of the world: The bad news is that you will fail in life. The good news is that no one will care.

Advice unsought is an opinion ignored.