Aphorism Quotes
75 Aphorism quotes by 57 unique authors
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think…
— Sam Waterston
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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
— Elias Canetti
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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
— Robert Breault
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Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.
— James Alexander Thom
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different…
— Charles Simmons
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life,…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my…
— Andre Gide
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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words...
— Thomas Carlyle
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The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words....
— Robert Breault
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the…
— William Rounseville Alger
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Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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 bodies carry ancient…
— Sue Thoele
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism…
— F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
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One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the…
— Hermann Hesse
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of…
— Bill Vaughan
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that…
— Umberto Eco
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
— Karl Kraus
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