Quotes About Aphorism

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

Models of style: the swearword, the telegram, the epitaph.

An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.

Shake an aphorism, he said, and in most cases a lie falls out, leaving only a banality.)

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

When the going gets tough, choose your cliché.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

But bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails, aye?' He

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

It is in an especial degree the tendency of the present age to deal only with tangible truths. Reason is the highpriest of the Nineteenth Century. It knows only the phenomena which the senses report to it. Its philosophy scouts the aphorism of Pascal, " The heart has reasons of its own that the reason knows not of." It tries every teaching by scientific tests; weighs moral truths in the apothecary's scales; sends divine and unseen realities to the chemists to be analyzed and tested.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

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 proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

Afterism (n) - A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Anthologies of aphorisms are usually arranged according to themes.... This is not the best method for the aphorism, because it often has several themes and interpretations.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

The aphorism that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem is usually true. And remember, changing one's mind in midair rarely works out.

The aphorism that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem is usually true.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

An aphorism is a neuro-argument. Science psychology culture and philosophy must have neuro-evidence. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

An aphorism is a neuro-argument. Science psychology culture and philosophy must have neuro-evidence.

Selfless nobility is a panacea for all the moral diseases of mankind, in the pharmacy of the philosophy of good and light. Aphorism should become a cure for evil.