A Quote by Mason Cooley

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

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

Donna Tartt

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

Winston Churchill

I do love my Gucci slides. I wear them inside. I'm like an old Russian man who wears slides in his house.

Yung Lean

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

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

Steven Pinker

What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.

Guy Kawasaki

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

Ambrose Bierce

Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a workable disguise." The quoting of an aphorism, such as "It takes a village to raise a child," "No news is good news," and "Love conquers all," rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen, which is why we provide our volunteers with a disguise kit in addition to helpful phrases of advice.

Daniel Handler

I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things / Like / My cousin comes to visit and you know he's from the South /'Cause every word he says just kind of slides out of his mouth / I like the way he whistles and I like the way he walks / But honey, let me tell you that I love the way he talks.

Eloise Greenfield

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

Ambrose Bierce

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

Frank Herbert

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.