Aphorisms Quotes

I prefer sayings over jokes.

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

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

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

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

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Full of wise saws and modern instances.

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

Russia is not angry. It is focusing.

I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.

Don't you go believing in sayings … they are all made by men, for their own advantages.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.