New Aphorisms

by Samuel T. Rothschiller

I truly enjoy Beethoven and Bach, but Brahms puts me to sleep. Hollywood kitchens are filled with utensils and glamour; hospitals have white gauze and red tape.
Maybe the passenger pigeon would not have become extinct if all the museums wouldn’t have killed and stuffed so many for display. Invariably, when someone says, "To make a long story short," they are not going to a shorter story, but are rather switching to another long story.
Some days all my thoughts are gems but my words are pisspools. What is your shit if not together?
I am reminded of one of my colleagues. At a publication party a number of years ago, he went around drinking a can of beer he had cached in his open fly. He circulated freely, discussing he sexual and Freudian implications of what he was doing. I began a career as a puppeteer, but I quit when my Berkeley friends started calling me a fascist and imperialist.
A majority does not equal a mandate.
It was signed "Kilroy"—an obvious forgery.
A college cafeteria is like organized religion. It gives you a substitute that causes you indigestion so you don’t need the real thing. Your Karma tells the Santa Claus of All-Being whether you will get a present or a lump of coal in your next life.

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