Deceit is something with a strong sense of truth about it, but has none of its good intentions.

The outcast is here primarily to be informed of his rightful place in society by the average man just going about his usual business.

When you just over-react people tend to look at you as if you have just overreacted over nothing at all.

It is perhaps better to learn from the mistakes of others than from your own, but you will probably learn more from your own.

If it’s not all right by you someone else probably isn’t so bothered by it so much, but that’s just to be expected.

Be wary of the man who offers you his hand for nothing, as you don’t always know where it’s been.

Defeat can either crush you or help reform you; anything else is beyond the realms of your worst imaginings.

Justice is supposed to bring order and fairness with authority, but you should always know when to do as you’re told.

A sneer, is a sneer, is a sneer, and means precisely “that sort of thing.”

Selfishness must have a reason, continuance, and a direction, or else it isn’t selfish enough to work.

If the strong demean the weak especially it is probably only to help enhance their status while doing so.

When something is lacking it’s partly still there to be seen, but not many people will understand what they’re looking at.

Standing alone in the crowd one is either “within the group” or “without the group”.

Occasionally, two wrongs can make a right, as since if it’s so right it can’t be so wrong.

Real men cannot possibly be shy, but can still wet themselves in fear of the dark.

Group acceptance is better than group vilification, but only on all pertinent occasions.

Resonance in conversation produces resonance in like-minded people, as it’s all very dynamic.

To be attacked unexpectedly with the whole truth suggests some sort of lying is also in order.

If you can work towards understanding something through knowledge, then you won’t have to run away from it in complete ignorance.

Do it all with a smile and a wink and you’ll always be harder to pin down to all those who expect no less than that from you.

Even continued negativity can be strength while catering for the opinions of those who do not expect it, even from you.

One should never base one’s own life upon another man’s vision—he can’t see any further than his own nose.

Only a fool waits for permission to live his life the way he wants to, for he’ll never get it.

Don’t ever get stuck emotionally in what sexual moralists like to call the, “So what?” diathesis.

Never forget to nod at the nodding-noddies, as (in mutual recognition) they subsequently like to nod back.

To become “so tired of it all” is another effective way of avoiding the sort of matter that aggravates you, right here and now.

Dirty tricks are “dirty tricks,” but sly jokes always come along with “a nice touch.”

Laziness is not doing what you want to do for your own sake it is doing what you don’t want to do for nobody’s sake.

Unfortunately, we cannot be wise all the time, as that would simply continue to be foolish.

It is no shame, being an autodidactic; at heart, almost everybody is to some degree or another, although he usually doesn’t like to admit it.

Knowing too much can be just as much a fault as knowing too little, if the consequences are essentially the same.

Showing magnanimity to those conquered by life must always be a matter of good manners, and not quite necessity.

Conceit blinds us; we are bound to fail to see where it would lead us in the end.

You know who you are as well as any other person does, when you find out how it really is quick enough.

Since what is important to you is important enough for that at least, then don’t bother to “give it up” for something else.

Problems never change; only your views on them alter.

Half-believing in a lie being told can be another way of stepping away from continuing with what is another choice of actions, but time passes anyway.

Once, we were not only part of our possibilities, we were also fast becoming part of other facts as well, but perhaps we did not notice it in time to make much of a difference.

The tragedy of humanity is that we learn things too late, and so in learning them at least learn that.

Do not seek to impose upon another man over an irrelevance, as he may not appreciate it as much as you do.

Losing one’s balance occasionally suggests that one has had some in the first place, which is something that can never last.

Life is all about appreciating the subtle nuances; if you can get that right you won’t be so bothered with the details.

Someone else’s issues are never important enough to concern oneself over, unless one chooses to make them one’s own by mistake.

Being told, “you shouldn’t be here,” certainly puts you in a place where you wouldn’t want to be, but at least you deserved it.

Regardless of the alliances you choose to make, the ones you don’t choose to make are much more tenacious.

Manage to tell the people what they want to hear, when they want to hear it, and you won’t have to tell them anything else for the rest of your life.

Perhaps, the most irritating thing about double entendre is that, perhaps, there isn’t any.

One must learn how to bother people selectively; after all, one would not wish to bother them all at once.

Nothing is so irksome as to be condemned by another person, and then, perhaps, to begin to think that he or she may be right after all.

The truth remains a lie only until it remains unchallenged, after that you may do with it as you wish.

You should be wary of those who don’t owe you anything, as frequently, they don’t, and are persistent about doing it as well.

What is essential? To be able to laugh at oneself for thinking that it is essential to be able to laugh at oneself.

Being fooled is part of the course; what you do with that sort of foolish information is entirely your own concern.

There is not much room for morality in our darker dreams, but there is still enough room for disgust on waking up.

Humour, to be acceptable, must be unacceptable, which is probably why it seems so funny to the uninitiated.

As social glue in a sane society, humour must be acceptable to everybody who finds it funny, or else it isn’t and so becomes something else.

Never assume that you are always entitled to a valid answer, as the only valid answer you are always entitled to get is wrong.

Wanting to be as you would like to be is no indication of how you are.

One should always expect the unexpected, or at least be prepared to expect it.

One thing is certain: one should not wish to get up in the morning solely to examine one’s emotional scars.

For the man who could not be bothered there is always one solution: bother him over it.

What you are is what you are not, although that is not what you cannot be.

“The outsider”, be careful of him: he’s not “one of us.”