Aphorism Quote by Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Winston Churchill

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

— Stefan Kanfer

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

— Mason Cooley

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

— Umberto Eco

The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

— Alfred Polgar

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

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— James Alexander Thom

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 ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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