The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting. — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
“Some men’s chests are more buttlike than some women’s butts.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“If I may paraphrase Hobbes 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“If Santa Claus was a politician, he would only put billboards promising the best Christmas presents.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
“Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle,… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find… — John Keats Copy Share Image
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In negotiations, everyone goes home with a slice of tactful compromise but nobody gets to binge on the whole cake and leave… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7? You're in luck-you already have one. Your body! Our… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
