He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697
An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
The aphorism is a slippery plaything.
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.
For like to like, the proverb saith.
ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.
A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.
Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.
I like to quote things.
I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.
