Quotes & Sayings About Aphorisms

People will never get in touch with democracy. It's always surrounded by bodyguards. — Ljupka Cvetanova

There are no independent people. Even when you are standing aside, you are taking a side. — Ljupka Cvetanova

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know - or seem to have, earn, or know. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Love at first sight? Let me just put on my glasses. — Ljupka Cvetanova

In function, Jesus's aphorisms are very much like his parables - provocative and invitational forms of speech. They provoke thought, lead people to reconsider their taken-for-granted assumptions, and invite them to see life differently. — Marcus J. Borg

I improvise therefore I exist! — Ljupka Cvetanova

Keep trying?
I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky — Ljupka Cvetanova

Women's movement has an effect on potency. — Ljupka Cvetanova

It takes two to bribe. — Ljupka Cvetanova

If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie. — Antonin Scalia

Life is a circle. It spins you around. — Ljupka Cvetanova

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond. — Franz Kafka

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hide in the morrow. No one will look for you there. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They're epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, captions, slogans, and adages. Some are art, some are commercial; these are forms with integrity. — Virginia Heffernan

In women he doesn't trust! He is an atheist. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can't have love and honor, and neither will bring you peace. — W.M. Driscoll

Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Old words are reborn with new faces. — Criss Jami

Smile out loud! Make them wonder. — Ljupka Cvetanova

In that case, balls to the wall, man." Riaz yawned. "No guts, no glory."
"Why are you spouting aphorisms at me?"
"Because it's two-fucking-thirty in the morning and I need to be up for a six a.m. shift."
"Wimp."
Riaz gave him the finger. "Get some sleep and chase your wolf tomorrow." Another yawn. "And Coop? Forget about subtle. That's not your style. — Nalini Singh

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God. — Emil Cioran

Don't let the devil fool you! Unless he's handsome. — Ljupka Cvetanova

I don't have an idol. I don't like imitations. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Some say men continually war against circumstances, but I say they perpetually flee. What are the works of men if not a momentary respite, a hiding place soon to be discovered by catastrophe? Life is endless flight before the hunter we call the world. - EKYANNUS VIII, 111 APHORISMS Spring, — R. Scott Bakker

Voyeurs have an open window on the world. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Free will is like fallen
leaves agreeing to be
where they are. — Salamanca

Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every season has its own art and the art of autumn is to bewitch the people! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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. — William Rounseville Alger

I am not a titleholder; I don't steal; I don't lie... — Ljupka Cvetanova

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure. — Mason Cooley

When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms, General.
-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn — Howard Tayler

Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start. — Ljupka Cvetanova

If you splurge on expensive booze you may be an alcoholic. If you go for the well on the other hand... you may be an alcoholic. — Euphrates Arnaut Moss

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing. — Marina Tsvetaeva

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

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed." "I don't think I am likely to marry, Harry. I am too much in love. That is one of your aphorisms. I am putting it into practice, as I do everything that you say. — Oscar Wilde

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy. — Patrick Rothfuss

Concerning days on which to rest, Sundays are rather apt. Other good days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. — Euphrates Arnaut Moss

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

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

Genius guarantees the faculties of the heart. Man is no less immortal than the soul. Great thoughts spring from reason! Fraternity is not a myth. Newborn children know nothing of life, not even greatness. In misfortune, friends increase. — Comte De Lautreamont

Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today. — Idries Shah

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

I'm not a saint! Thanks God! — Ljupka Cvetanova

When you are constantly prevailing upon the kindness of strangers-as a hitchhiker must-it keeps you in a positive frame of mind. Call it Zen and the Art of Hitchhiking. The Way of the Lift. The chrysanthemum and the Thumb. Heady on beer and the sound of my own voice, the aphorisms spilled out unchecked. — Will Ferguson

I've changed so many masks. None suits me. — Ljupka Cvetanova

On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus. — Robert Bellarmine

There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Knowing how to fall is much more valuable than knowing how to walk. — Diogo Mainardi

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sometimes in his arrogance he has more anxiety for the world than for himself. — Franz Kafka

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring. — Alexandre Dumas

Treat me as I am,
and that I shall remain.
Treat me as I wish to be,
and that I shall become. — Karl Schmidt

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — F.H. Bradley

I have a wide circle of friends, wide enough to keep them away from me. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Passionate smokers always welcome the peace-pipe without hesitation. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Strong women are those who do not do everything they can. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Exactly. The most convincing argument doesn't come from pithy sayings or aphorisms, but through stories. A clear line of causality, from one event to the next, that seems to be leading to an inevitable conclusion." "We are fighting our guerrilla war battle by battle. — Edward W. Robertson

What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast. — William Matthews

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

They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one. — Ljupka Cvetanova

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

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words ... Be not the slave of Words ... — Thomas Carlyle

Settle down and be Good forever. Find the hardest things to accept in me, and reconcile what I am with what I hope to be. — Jen Wang

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose. — Northrop Frye

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

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. — Joyce Carol Oates

Dear God, save us from The Church! — Ljupka Cvetanova

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words. — Gretchen Rubin

It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference. (50) — David Gessner

Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization. — David Wong

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running. — Ljupka Cvetanova

If I knew he loved me for my wealth, I would have told him I was richer. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Hmm,' said the King. 'I must write that down in my book of aphorisms. I don't know if it is deep, but it sounds deep. — Stephen Mitchell

Every lesson in life is worth learning except for the ones you can't afford. — Euphrates Arnaut Moss

Give a man a finger, he'll put a wedding ring on it! — Ljupka Cvetanova

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. — Haruki Murakami

I have nothing to lose. I keep all my valuables in a safe. — Ljupka Cvetanova

A good imagination doesn't eschew limitations, it embraces them! — Euphrates Arnaut Moss

According to tradition, the originator of Taoism, Lao-tzu, was an older contemporary of Kung Fu-tzu, or Confucius, who died in 479 B.C.1 Lao-tzu is said to have been the author of the Tao Te Ching, a short book of aphorisms, setting forth the principles of the Tao and its power or virtue (Te e). But traditional Chinese philosophy ascribes both Taoism and Confucianism to a still earlier source, to a work which lies at the very foundation of Chinese thought and culture, dating anywhere from 3000 to 1200 B.C. This is the I Ching, or Book of Changes. — Alan W. Watts

A blink of an eye is what separates you from reality. — Ljupka Cvetanova

It is up to man to be an angel or a devil! You become whatever you choose to be! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

It's not over till the fat lady eats! — Ljupka Cvetanova

He has the feeling that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way. From this sense of hindrance, in turn, he deduces the proof that he is alive. — Franz Kafka

Trouble never turns down an invitation. — Euphrates Arnaut Moss

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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. — James Geary

What you'd have done do; what not delegate. — Euphrates Arnaut Moss

An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana