Gnomic Quotes
- I grow gnomic. It is the last phase. — Samuel
- Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has… — George Santayana
- A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. — Gary Saul Morson
- Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only… — John Ciardi
- Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then… — Diana Wynne Jones
- I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. — Neil Gaiman