Aphorisms About Life Quotes & Sayings

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. — Dick Cavett

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

Songs are life in 80 words or less. — Neil Diamond

This book denounces the cultism in chiropractic but supports the appropriate use of spinal manipulation and the research efforts required to solidify its scientific basis. If you are contemplating or receiving chiropractic care, it might help protect both your pocketbook and your health. — Samuel Homola

There can be no centre
in infinity. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will. — Frederick William Robertson

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

societies define themselves by how they define and manage dangers. — Baruch Fischhoff

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry. — Ethel Waters

It's shameful for a devil to be good. — Ljupka Cvetanova

This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he was once so gullible and needy that he drank deeply of such weak and fruity Kool-Aid. That's some other book. Slogans saved my life. All of them
the dumb ones, the preachy ones, the imperatives, the cliches, the injunctives, the gooey, Godly ones, the shameless, witless ones. — David Carr

There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable
unobservable in principle
it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality
it's just a figment of our imaginations. — Leonard Susskind

In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum. — Geoff Capes