Aphorism Quotes

75 Aphorism quotes by 57 unique authors

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
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. — Elias Canetti
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
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. — Robert Breault
Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. — James Alexander Thom
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
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
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
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
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
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
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words... — Thomas Carlyle
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
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
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
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
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
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
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
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. — Karl Kraus

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