What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words… Be not the slave of Words... — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Why must an aphorism be brief? Because only a fool gives a speech in a burning house.” — James Geary Copy Share Image
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring… — Noah Lukeman Copy Share Image
“If Heraclitus was a Macedonian, his philosophy would be : No Macedonian ever steps in the same native country twice. For it’s… — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“What I say will be a bit of boasting. The mad wine tells me to do it. Wine sets even a thoughtful… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
“We would have fed the world if we hadn't been throwing away food in the gap between the rich and the poor.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used. — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
“Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain. — James Geary Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Feminism? It might change society, but it will certainly not change the man.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“Stolen oranges also have Vitamin C. Likewise, a stolen salmon, too, has omega-3 fatty acids.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
