Aphorism Quote by Umberto Eco

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

— 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

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Winston Churchill

I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.

— Richard Turner

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

— James Alexander Thom

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 aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

— Mason Cooley

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

— Karl Kraus

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley