What many clever, extrovert, self-centred men often enjoy is an audience high: that self-sustaining pleasure only produced by titillating the fancy of a select group of participants, preferably enacted whilst standing up to increase the auditory authority of their verbal ejaculations and as a dominance posture––monkeys, one and all!
If you can’t even learn what there is to learn when it’s there to be learnt, you can’t even learn how much of a fool you really are either.
To live life in your own way you’re generally going to have to push people aside, or they’ll generally push you aside first.
Outrageous laughter: that which pins the insignificant tale of the preposterous primate right back on the monkey’s backside where it belongs.
Getting caught is so often so much more interesting than going free, and everyone should try it on for size at least once before he dies, to see how much it suits him.
If someone tells you, “It’s frightening!” it may be so, but that’s not necessarily what is meant by it.
If someone is mildly cynical about wealthy people who own Porches, then he probably doesn’t have one, but if he did he’d prefer a Ferrari.
A true cynic is someone who knows the highly theoretical value of virtue and the purely personal cost of losing it.
Learn to study the intensely studied look on the faces of people around you, and you can look intensely studied as well.
Those who have bubbly, outgoing, friendly personalities have found a way of getting on that works well for them. However, they’re not that way all the time.
Laughing stocks always remain very popular with people, as they give them something to laugh about so often.
You can be attacked just as quickly for something you haven’t done, just as easily as it is to be attacked for something you have done.
There are highly intelligent but devious, deceitful, and manipulative people around who use those close to them to advance their own ends; those who do this best also know that they only live for a short while anyway.
You begin to do things wrong for yourself when you don’t put the required effort into doing what you want to do, but if you don’t know what to do, what then?
About Me
- Drew Byrne
- Basically, I am someone interested in quotations, those mainly being of an aphoristic form; consequently, I have collected many examples together over the years, ones which I most liked, warmed to, or appreciated. Although most of these I cannot really now recall without looking them up, and so I supppose are not of much use except as written ornaments to an inefficient memory, but so it goes. I am interested in archaeology, history, and antiques, although not as much as I once was. Philosophy, also, has interested me from time to time, although I never learned much about it. It has been said (although certainly not by me) that “in time, most men become philosophers, although not particularly good ones.” I can say without much hesitation that that I am one of these fellows.
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