588 Quotes About Aphorism

That which yields is not always weak.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

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

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.