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Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.
Cooley, Mason
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
Bradley, Francis H.
In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
Cooley, Mason
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Nabokov, Vladimir
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
Cooley, Mason
An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
Kraus, Karl
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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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.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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