Aphorism Quotes

I have forgotten my umbrella.

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.

Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.

I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.

Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

-Truly, freeing oneself in one’s own mind is only the first step on a path of freedom.-

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

I sheep's idea of bravery : To become a wolf's pet.

A coward is a servant of his fears.A hero enslaves his fears.

Men can go to hell! I’ll meet them there.

It takes two to bribe.

Life corrects the errors of logic.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

Where there is a smoke, there is an ecologist.

People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.

Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.

Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.