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- An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience
- The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you,…
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- On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle,… — Robert Bellarmine
- Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring… — Noah Lukeman
- Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — F. H. Bradley
- Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain. — James Geary
- Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. — Anatole Broyard
- The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of… — F. H. Bradley
- The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of… — Samuel Johnson
- 'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. — George Eliot
- Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. — William Rounseville Alger
- The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. — Elias Canetti
- Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific… — Charles Simmons
- The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms… — Andre Gide