Quotes About Aphorism

Goethe is always pithy.

Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit.

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.

It's like Eldridge Kestenbaum always says - you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Horse manure catches more flies than honey and vinegar put together, retorted Mark.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Maybe the secret of the pessimistic aphorism is actually quite simple, even formulaic: one is always pretending to be a writer.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narrated story.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

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

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

It has a constant tendency to the aphorism—the ripe fruit hanging on the tree of knowledge—noticeable in the writings of the higher order of men of genius; the great dramatists, the poets generally, Bacon, Burke, Franklin, Landor, and indeed most of the classic authors who pass current in the world in quotation.

Our live experiences fixed in aphorisms stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart's blood, as we write with it, darkens into ink.

The pre-Socratic aphorism—ethos is the daemon—can be translated as "character is fate." In drama, character is action. Shakespeare, too capacious for any formula, leads me to a rival aphorism: Pathos also is the daemon, which could be rendered as "personality is our destiny." In Shakespearean theatricalism, personality is suffering. Action, Wordsworth wrote, is momentary, while suffering is permanent, obscure, dark, and shares the nature of infinity.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.

Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan.