Knowledge Quote by Francis Bacon Sr

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

— James Geary

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

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

— Anatole Broyard

“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

Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

— Robert Breault

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or…

— John Arbuthnot

By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the mind is…

— Robert Greene

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

— Karl Kraus

“Words may show a man's wit, actions his meaning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended”

— Jane Austen