Axioms Quotes
Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.
Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.
Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.
Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.
For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.
Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.
The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.
The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.
We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.
We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.
To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.
Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.
We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.
Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.
Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.
A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.
In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.
