Quotes about aphorism

Give a man a proverband he’ll muse for a moment.Teach a man to find the verb in every proverband he’ll walk in wisdom for a lifetime.

Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.

Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.

Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single and some people would not have done that.

Most people do kiss and tell most of them just don’t tell many people.

Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty they merely aspire to escape it.

Life is short love is longer.

Not everything happens for a reason we claim that it does for a reason: to console ourselves.

We seldom look up to the person we usually look up to their persona.

Most women sell sex most of them just don’t take cash (nor do they each sell to more than one ‘client’ at a time).

Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.

Some people do not really hate aging they merely love the colour black.

Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs some wear one to conceal their age.

You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do.

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

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

God shows us the path the Devil shows us the possibilities.

Men can go to hell! I’ll meet them there.

I sheep's idea of bravery : To become a wolf's pet.

A coward is a servant of his fears.A hero enslaves his fears.

It takes two to bribe.

-Truly, freeing oneself in one’s own mind is only the first step on a path of freedom.-

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option.

He is insatiable in love. His wife is a great cook.

Luckily we don't sleep standing. Who knows where the dream will take us!

aphorism 90: I am incorrigible. I would have every object of the universe mechanically predictable but myself.

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

Life corrects the errors of logic.

Where there is a smoke, there is an ecologist.

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.

Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.

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

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.

There is truth in wine and children

That which yields is not always weak.

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

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

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.

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.

The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said.

A man who wears a fragrant flower on his collar spreads a perfume wherever he goes. (141)

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

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.

There's nothing quite like turning the page.

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

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.

wash off the journey

There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.

Of the spirit of women. - The spiritual power of a woman is best demonstrated by her sacrificing her own spirit to that of a man out of love of him and of his spirit but then, despite this sacrifice, immediately evolving _a new spirit_ within the new domain, originally alien to her nature, to which the man's disposition impels her. (from Assorted Opinions & Maxims 272)-- This is the first time among years of reading Nietzsche that i agree with his words on women: this aphorism captures a few qui

I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

I keep having the same experience and keep resisting it every time. I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lacks an intellectual conscience. Indeed, it has often seemed to me as if anyone calling for an intellectual conscience were as lonely in the most densely populated cities as if he were in a desert. Everybody looks at you with strange eyes and goes right on handling his scales, calling this good and that evil. Nobody even blushes when you intimate

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

Beware of finding what you're lookin

An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.

The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.

Good morning, nightmare!

Happiness can not be prescribed, postponed or preserved.Relish its unpredictability. Cherish its exclusivity. Accept its brevity. But above all savour its delicious exquisiteness. Do not let it go cold!

Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs.

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.

A good night's sleep counts healthy sheep.

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites.

The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all...

Please be my friend.

The eleventh commandment of art: thou shalt not be boring.

Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

A blink of an eye is what separates you from reality.

I have inflammation of the imagination.

An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists … or that He doesn’t.

Only memories have a future.

Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

I know the power of speech. I don't talk much.

Big people never scare me. I am a little man. I can easily hide.

I think therefore I am not sure.

A criminal always returns home.

The key to happiness is under the doorstep rug.

There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.

Politics knows no currency.

Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.

As soon as you wink, you close your eyes to reality.

Everything is possible, but where can I find everything?!

When I am, you are not.

It's not over till the fat lady eats!