Top 86 Aphorism Quotes & Sayings

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

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

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.

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

Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

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.

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

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

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

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

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

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.

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.

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.

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

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

An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.

The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

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

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."

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

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

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.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness.

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.

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

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

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

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

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

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

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.

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

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.