Quotes about Aphorism
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
- Robert Brault
My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.
- Ravi Zacharias
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
- John Keats
Goethe is always pithy.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words...."
- Robert Brault
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
- Mark Twain
Good things come in small packages.
- Aesop