Aphorism Quote by John Fowles

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

— Mason Cooley

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

— Winston Churchill

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

— Umberto Eco

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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 word 'modern' is a cliche.

— Patrick Cox

An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

— Mason Cooley

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

— Joseph Goebbels

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

“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym…

— Paul Valéry

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