Jacob M. Appel

Quotes

• “Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of y...”
• “The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in ...”
• “Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those ...”
• “Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to h...”
• “Nixon’s offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but ...”
• “Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend thei...”
• “This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with...”
• “A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by...”
• “The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.”
• “Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.”
• “I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....”
• “Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.”
• “If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.”
• “The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.”
• “Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.”
• “Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.”
• “Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.”