Aphorism Quote by James Alexander Thom Download Open image “Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.” — James Alexander Thom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aphorism Clever Concise Late Quotations Statements Thinking Too late
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
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
Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
“He remembered another one of his mother's saying. It was back when she'd birthed Fanny, her tenth. Someone had siad it was about time… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up. — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
“But then he remembered what George had told him about pain. You know what you can do, even if your body says quit. It's… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or kill… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
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“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
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