Aphorism Quote by Alfred Polgar Download Open image “The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.” — Alfred Polgar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aphorism Funny Inspirational Love
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness. — Mason Cooley 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
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
An aphorism and its author aren't joined by a dash, but separated by it. — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some… — Samuel Johnson 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 a hedgehog. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls… — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign. — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop. — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude. — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore. — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps. — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
When everyone leaves you its loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else its solitude. — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
