Aphorisms by Patricie Holečková
Posted on January 20, 2010
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Patricie Holečková is a Czech aphorist. Born in Slovakia, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kracow and has lived in the Czech Republic since 1982. Her aphorisms first appeared in the Czech anthology A Good Word Never Cuts to The Quick (2004). Her first collection, Aphorisms (Oftis), was published in 2005 and this year a new collection, Without Many Words, is due out. For more aphorisms, go to Patricie Holečková’s website.
I prefer the living thoughts of the dead as opposed to the dead thoughts of the living.
He who doesn’t have ideals idealizes whatever he has.
Some people have so much self-confidence that they can’t even be flattered.
We flatter ourselves the most when we say that we value sincerity more than flattery
Those who don’t pretend they’re smarter think they’re smarter.
A big mistake is to overlook the small one.
Only in disappointment do we realize how big our hopes were.
Young people have illusions about the future, old people about the past.
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Those who think they’re smarter are probably much stupider than they’d think.
Self-assurance: the commonest form of error.
What is based on illusion can be very real.
How come it’s always the narrow path that considers itself superior?
The logician has his premises, the politician his promises.
It is not schizophrenia; it is not a soliloquy or dramatic monologue; it is just someone on a cell-phone in a crowded, public place.
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It’s nice to see the Czechs getting on so well nowdays. Pritty soon they’ll have nothing left to write about except their contentment.
What a great new find.