Antithesis Quote by William C. Brown

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

— Stefan Kanfer

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

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words…

— Robert Breault

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

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

— Robert Breault

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

— James Alexander Thom

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

— Umberto Eco

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

— Anatole Broyard

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

— Mason Cooley