It’s the danger of the aphorism that it states too much in trying to be small.
Aphorism Quotes
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
Anthologies of aphorisms are usually arranged according to themes. This is not the best method for the aphorism, because it often has several themes and interpretations.
Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they […]
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in few words.
An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
