Only the aphorist may be the target of his own arrows.

aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Cliches are aphorisms that have become victims of their own success.

aphorism by James Geary
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Read the aphorisms between lines even if they only have one.

aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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The inspiration of a divine aphorism is often the inferno.

aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Where the common sense is beyond recall, the aphorism gains in meaning.

aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Aphorism is a phrase that, after removal of context, retains all its meaning, and even gaining a new one.

aphorism by Kazimierz Matan
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A book of aphorisms must be like one of those parties where all the women are sensational, but one of them is quite unforgettable.

aphorism by Ramon Eder, translated by Dan Costinaş
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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.

quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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.

quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Aphorism - a grain of wisdom in the shell of words.

aphorism by Kazimierz Matan
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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

quote by Anatole Broyard
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

quote by Karl Kraus
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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

quote by Elias Canetti
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We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

quote by Paul Eldridge
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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Aphorism And Poem (Definitions)

An Aphorism is sentence for the mind
A Poem sustenance for the soul-

poem by Shalom Freedman
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

quote by Mason Cooley
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Writers of aphorisms are like the less developed countries that sell their raw materials for less.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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A Paradox of Truth

The truth
Is never simple,
Said Oscar Wilde.

But the aphorism
Is so simple
That it cannot be true.

poem by Paul Hartal
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