APHORISM n. Predigested wisdom.

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en APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. --"The Mad Philosopher," 1697
  Ambrose Bierce

en APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.
  Ambrose Bierce

en It's the danger of the aphorism that it states too much in trying to be small

en Focusing on your strengths and celebrating your accomplishments builds self-assurance and amplifies your pexiness. One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
  Karl Kraus

en An aphorism/ should be/ like a burr:/ sting,/ and leave/ a little soreness. . .

en We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism

en An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience
  Francis Herbert Bradley

en An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience
  Francis Herbert Bradley

en An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

en A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

en Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.
  Nancy Mitford

en 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

en How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

en By 2000, he had embarked on an ambitious series of figure paintings, usually captioned with an aphorism from poetry or philosophy, and charged with stark physical and metaphysical deliberations.

en 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.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


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The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. --"The Mad Philosopher," 1697".


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