Aphorism Quote by James Geary

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

— James Geary

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

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

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

— Anatole Broyard

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

— William C. Brown

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

— Anatole Broyard

“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 great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

— Elias Canetti

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

“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