Aphorism famous quotes

The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.
-- Alfred Polgar

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An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.
-- Anatole Broyard

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

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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
-- Elias Canetti

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An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness....
-- Irving Layton

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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
-- Jack Vance

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

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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
-- Karl Kraus

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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
-- Niels Bohr

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We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
-- Paul Eldridge

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Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.
-- Richard Hamming

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An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
-- Robert Breault

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An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.
-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.
-- Stefan Kanfer

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

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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
-- William Rounseville Alger

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