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Tag Name "Aphorism" (70)

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Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
James Geary
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.
Ambrose Bierce
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
Anatole Broyard
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Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.
Mason Cooley
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Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.
James Alexander Thom
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Mad Philosopher, 1697
Ambrose Bierce
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Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.
W. H. Auden
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
William Rounseville Alger
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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
Samuel Johnson
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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
Jack Vance
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
Zadie Smith
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An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was.
Stella Chess
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.
Joyce Carol Oates
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
Karl Kraus
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An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Andre Gide
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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
Mason Cooley
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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles who condense in one sentence the secrets of life who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.
Mason Cooley
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The aphorism Whatever is, is right, would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
Charles Dickens
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