588 Quotes About Aphorism

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Many are the birds who under the sun's rays wander the sky; not all of them mean anything

The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.

What I say will be a bit of boasting. The mad wine tells me to do it. Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.

The aphorist writes in the gap between poetry and philosophy.

The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.

There's nothing quite like turning the page.

Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless, not so much by the strength of what we sip from the cup, but that which we eat, the water we drink, and the air we inhale, which at fermentation conspire at eventide to make us so drunk and tired that we lose control of ourselves and fall asleep. Everybody is a drunkard, and if we were to enforce real prohibition we should all be dead.