Thoughts More Sly Than Wry

"In explaining one's self to others, one should make especially clear the part where the explanation is over."


"One comes to suspect that more people are certifiably insane than can produce a certificate."


"Although death, we realize, is a part of life, there's a wider range of activities in the part before you die."


"Most of what we understand of the human soul goes under the name of art appreciation."


"A rule of thumb for artists is this -- if you can't think of anything you left out, you aren't finished."


"An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art."


"Politicians like to rely on slogans, lest their constituents become the unwitting pawns of reasoned discourse."


"It is not that a political party wishes to advocate nonsense, but sometimes it's the only opposing viewpoint."


"There is an inclination to treat unjustly those whose only crime is that we have unjustly treated them."


"Just heard from a friend in Texas, where, she says, it's now treason to plot against the overthrow of the federal government."


"One wonders, reading history, why our ancestors worked so hard for things they could have just demanded from the government."


"Personally I favor a strict interpretation of the Constitution, loosely applied."


"Every wise saying is actually two, depending on whether it ends with a period or a question mark."


"One hears little common sense spoken in politics, due to the risk of alienating its opponents."


"It is a central belief in democracy that ignorance, until eradicated, is entitled to representation."


The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words... .'


As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do."


~~ Robert Brault