The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.
I have forgotten my umbrella.
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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. "
Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.
An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept. " That was clear to me now.
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.
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.
A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.