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

— Anatole Broyard

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

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

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

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

— Elias Canetti

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

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

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“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

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

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

— Robert Breault