Aphorism Quote by Mason Cooley

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

— John Fowles

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

— Mason Cooley

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

— Mason Cooley

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

— Umberto Eco

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

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

— James Alexander Thom

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

— Winston Churchill

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 that does not score is just one more sentence.

— Mason Cooley

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 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

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