“Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.” — William Penn Copy Share Image
“A nuclear test is not a nuclear test. It is an intelligence test.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“People fight foe equality but to the first chance for domination.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Everything flows and water bills are getting higher and higher.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
