An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
Aphorism Quotes
Aphorisms are salted, not sugared, almonds at Reason’s feast.
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser or more intelligent than his readers. For this reason the aphorist who adopts a folksy style with “democratic” diction and grammar is a cowardly and insufferable […]
This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water; and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
