Aphorism Quotes
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We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are - to most people - not important at all.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.
— Mason Cooley
There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Even poison has an expiry date.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Big people never scare me. I am a little man. I can easily hide.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
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.
You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love at first sight? Let me just put on my glasses.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
— Rebecca West
The kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.
— Anne Enright
An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.
— John Fowles
He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.
— Jack Vance
Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.
— Marty Rubin
I have a wide circle of friends, wide enough to keep them away from me.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
In his life there was only one woman. The other one.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said.
— Orson Scott Card
I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
'Character, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
— George Eliot
If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Women! Dressed to kill the woman in them.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.
— Mason Cooley
Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs.
— J.M. Barrie
I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Children are our future. Unfortunately, we are their past.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
As soon as you wink, you close your eyes to reality.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
-Truly, freeing oneself in one's own mind is only the first step on a path of freedom.-
— Mark Alberto Yoder Nunez
I think therefore I am not sure.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...
— Thomas Stockman
Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Only memories have a future.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, in other words ...
— Robert Breault
Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A man who wears a fragrant flower on his collar spreads a perfume wherever he goes. (141)
— Prem Prakash
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
— Emil M. Cioran
Behind every successful woman is a hungry man.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Politics knows no currency.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
A good night's sleep counts healthy sheep.
— Brian Spellman
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
— Anatole Broyard
(A frequent Eric aphorism during financial discussions: "Revenue solves all known problems.")
— Eric Schmidt
A criminal always returns home.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I will build the best Potemkin village for you, my love!
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.
— Mark Dvoretsky
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window
— Steve Wozniak
Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
— Caitlin Moran
wash off the journey
— Okey Ndibe
Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
There is a perfect marriage. Any marriage counselor can tell you that.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Keep trying?
I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky — Ljupka Cvetanova
I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky — Ljupka Cvetanova
If you don't understand it, it's art.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
— Friedrich Von Schlegel
Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.
— Patrick Rothfuss
You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll end up as a clown.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
— William Rounseville Alger
In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
— Mason Cooley
A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Who am I to judge me?
— Ljupka Cvetanova
An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Journalists are never hungry. They swallow everything.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
It's only words... unless they're true.
— David Mamet
My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.
— Lera Auerbach
While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Don't let the devil fool you! Unless he's handsome.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.
— Marty Rubin
Men weigh love with hands.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The eleventh commandment of art: thou shalt not be boring.
— W.M. Driscoll
Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana