“Don't argue with a smart person. He won't drag you up to his level.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
“Many are the birds who under the sun's rays wander the sky; not all of them mean anything” — Homer Copy Share Image
“Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“(The legal aphorism is that when the law is on your side, argue the law; when the facts are on your side,… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
