“An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.”
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Source: A Dialogue of Proverbs
Source: THE BITTER HERITAGE VIETNAM AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY 1941-1966
“Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.”
Source: The World in a Phrase
“The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.”
“What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.”
“We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.”
“Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.”
“APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.”
“'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.”
Source: On Literature
“Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.”
Source: Secrets of Chess Training
“The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.”
Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation
“An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.”
“Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
Source: Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
Source: Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle
Source: Human, All Too Human