Aphorism Quote by James Geary

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

— James Geary

Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a…

— Anonymous

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

— James Geary

“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

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 mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture…

— William C. Brown

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

— Mason Cooley

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's…

— William C. Brown

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

— James Alexander Thom

My aphorisms have the power to translate my ideas into written words that clearly express my feelings and convictions.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

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

— Robert Breault

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