Aphorism Quotes - Page 2

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

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

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

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

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

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

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

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

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.