Aphorism Quote by Umberto Eco

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Stefan Kanfer

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

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

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

— Mason Cooley

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

— James Alexander Thom

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

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 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

Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.

— Mason Cooley

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel