Aphorism Quote by Irving Layton Download Open image “An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness.” — Irving Layton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aphorism Burrs Littles Should Soreness
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I… — James Geary Copy Share Image
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
