An aphorism should be like a burr: sting,. . . and leave a little soreness.
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.
I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.
Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.