Quotes About Aphorism

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

There is no more dangerous gift to posterity than a few cleverly turned platitudes.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The attack by those who want to die — this is the attack against which you cannot prepare a perfect defense. — Human aphorism

APOPHTHEGM  (A'POPHTHEGM)   n.s. remarkable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion.

What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

A witty saying proves nothing.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Kate said, "Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Bismarck's aphorism throws a different and more encouraging light on the problem. It helps us to realize that there are two forms of practical experience, direct and indirect and that, of the two, indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

Aphorism or maxim, let us remember that this wisdom of life is the true salt of literature; that those books, at least in prose, are most nourishing which are most richly stored with it; and that it is one of the great objects, apart from the mere acquisition of knowledge, which men ought to seek in the reading of books.

The short sayings of the wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks of diamonds.

Aforismul e cultivat doar de cei care au cunoscut frica "în mijlocul" cuvintelor, frica de a se n?rui împreun? cu "toate cuvintele".

In any book governed by the Fragment, truths and whims keep company throughout.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.