Aphorisms for the Uncommon Reader - Hardcover

by William Melvin Gardner (Author)

AAphorisms for the Uncommon Reader was released by Logica Books and is available at Amazon, B&N, Book Depository, and local bookstores. It provides a review of this briefest and broadest form of the literary arts, followed by 400 original, thought-provoking, and humorous insights, for example:

• The toucan sees nothing unusual in the mirror.
• We make lifelong friends while we are young and indiscriminate.
• Capitalism: n. An ingenious system for creating work for workers, wealth for the wealthy, and poverty for the poor.
• You can learn what you have to say only by listening when you speak.
• Perceptions: n. pl. Images from our past distorted to accommodate the objects currently before us.
• Happiness isn't something that happens to us. It's something we do.
• We usually understand what we heard, even when we don't understand what was said.
• Adulthood: n. The developmental stage in which we abandon our selves to become our lives.
• Militia: n. An armed mob organized by shirt color-historically black or brown.