The politics of envy keep the Porsches out of the hands of the proletariat, and it’s a good thing too, especially if they’ve just been polished.

Shoeshine boys must swear blue murder about you behind your back, and so long as they do a good job with the polish who gives a damn?

Sometimes, painting the truth black for fun is the only thing that brings out its essential meaning in Technicolor.

Opinions need to be clarified before you can make mincemeat out of them.

If you truly want to “live life to the full before you die,” do you really know what that means, or are you just too afraid to find out?

What you need to combat life is a correct philosophy; once you have achieved this nothing can stop you, except death.

Some people will like to walk about with iron bars in their hands as it’s all the better to hit you with––and you wouldn’t think you’d deserve it would you?

Your peers are always looking to you to say something inanely stupid, so as to mark you out from others; the trick is to not say it to them directly and move more in with the crowd instead.

If you do manage to say something inanely stupid over nothing in particular of relevance you’ll be left wondering why you said it. It’s the thing no one forgets and everyone will mark you by.

It’s always best to run with the crowd, as in this way it’s unlikely that you’ll be singled out before they catch up with someone else trying to be a real individual.

There are some people who, to your determent, will like to pass moral judgement on every single act you make. While there are others who simply don’t give a damn, but think it anyway just to keep their minds ticking over.

People enjoy commenting on what other people are doing with their time, but more often than not it just gets nasty.

Sometimes, you can throw a mangy dog a bone and he will be content to gnaw at it until his teeth wear down.

Memories will increase to haunt the footsteps of the has-beens, and blister the souls of the don’t haves.

Highly intelligent individuals often tend to look down on the plebs for being ignorant, because they are.

Some men, if they fail at something, will immediately go on to do something else; while other men, without finding that sense of direction in themselves, will simply decide to sit down and die of boredom.