How To Use Aphorism In A Sentence

As with many quotes there's a good deal of truth in it and, as with many aphorisms, that truth becomes more and more shallow and two-dimensional as it is examined.
And the loveable curmudgeon is responsible for most of literature's best quotations, maxims and aphorisms.
Code and other Laws of Cyberspace, in which he coined the aphorism "code is law" and predicted that commercialization would lead to the demise of the open Internet. Ars Technica
From today painting is dead" is an aphorism often attributed to Paul Delaroche, a 19th-century French painter, upon seeing the first daguerreotypes though Wikipedia maintains there is no compelling evidence that he actually said it. Farewell to the fine art of focusing
Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes.

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Is it any wonder, under all these circumstances, that the aphorism is so absolutely correct -- that Canada is today the brightest jewel in the colonial coronet of the Empire? The Outlook of Central Canada
These speeches had to be rich in literary illusion and ruminative aphorism.
Age and hygienic necessities bind me to a somewhat anchoritic life in pure air, with abundant leisure to meditate upon the wisdom of Candide's sage aphorism, "Cultivons notre jardin" ” especially if the term garden may be taken broadly and applied to the stony and weed-grown ground within my skull, as well as to a few perches of more promising chalk down outside it. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Americans of a certain age will recall Douglas MacArthur's pithy aphorism: ‘There is no substitute for victory.’
I have always thought, moreover, that the Hudibrastic aphorism is worthy of practice, because nothing can be more evident than the fact that Fifteen Years in Hell
At the heart of all this is a Sufi aphorism that speaks agelessly to the true nature of loss itself, that it has an afterlife where spirit lies. Knowing Jesse
We all know the old aphorism that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
Life is not composed by aphorism,how can we decorate it with pompous cliches? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
You assert that the ‘teach a man to fish’ aphorism is indicative of compassion, but your ’sell a man a shoe shine kit’ example is a bag of stereotyping bigotry. Think Progress » Rep. King: Undocumented Haitians Should Be Deported Because Haiti Is In ‘Great Need Of Relief Workers’
On one occasion the distinguished guests gathered with him round the table were excited at the prospect of hearing some new and sparkling aphorism fall from his lips.
Age and hygienic necessities bind me to a somewhat anchoritic life in pure air, with abundant leisure to meditate upon the wisdom of Candide's sage aphorism, "Cultivons notre jardin" -- especially if the term garden may be taken broadly and applied to the stony and weed-grown ground within my skull, as well as to a few perches of more promising chalk down outside it. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
Wilde, who could never resist an aphorism, frequently undermines the seriousness of his beliefs by his brilliant and paradoxical style.
These speeches had to be rich in literary illusion and ruminative aphorism.
He's down-to-earth, gesticulating all over the place, with folksy aphorisms and punch lines all put in the right spots, but in an unforced, uncontrived matter.
Balanchine famously declared that "ballet is a woman," but the aphorism was far truer in Degas's day, when the ballet was an almost exclusively feminine preserve of layered tarlatan skirts, pink satin slippers and ribbons.
The temptation to prove or disprove something with an aphorism or epigram secures instant juvenile glee, but nisus of impelling wider perspective flee. Archive 2009-03-01
Ethics was about obligations to other people, expressed in aphorisms such as ‘do as you would be done by’.
That aphorism from the historian John Lukacs is in the first paragraph of a brilliant article "Why Aren't Conservatives Conservationists?" found here. 10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002
Many of the aphorisms having to do with the Fall, suffering and redemption show a progressivist chiliastic or even quasi-Hegelian structure culminating in some aspect of the coincidentia oppositorum, the final freedom promised by man's release from the prison of the principle of contradiction. Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites
The honest captain had caught this word from a recent treatise against agrarianism, and having an acquired taste for orders in one sense, at least, he flattered himself with being what is called a Conservative, in other words, he had a strong relish for that maxim of the Scotch freebooter, which is rendered into English by the comely aphorism of "keep what you've got, and get what you can. Homeward Bound or, the Chase
Doesn't matter that my most common response is to point out that aphorisms are the cheapest form of intelligent comment, I get reminded now and then that sarcasm just isn't on.
*: The aphorism is true in its weak sense; words have no inherent meaning, so of course the meaning of a word is whatever is history has led to it being recognized as denoting. The real difference between “between” and “among” « Motivated Grammar
Life is not composed by aphorism, how can we decorate it with pompous cliche & 1 & s? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
This book is full of aphorisms, bon mots and witticisms, nearly all to do with the absurdity of the world in which we live.
A few more aphorisms have been found as borrowings from the past.
Combine the cryptic poetry and riddle-style aphorisms espoused by Richard Arthur,his lack ofany relevant formal training and the fact that People Knowhow conducts corporate workshops, and you have a recipe for hokum, pseudo-science andgeneral malaise. 2009 August 11 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
Doctors Tourniquet and Lancelot retired in disgust, menacing something like a general pestilence, in vengeance of what they termed rebellion against the neglect of the aphorisms of Hippocrates. The Surgeon's Daughter
Holmes was a master of the flip aphorism, but one shouldn't confuse flip aphorisms with legal acumen.
A good aphorism is the tip of an iceberg of thought. April 15th, 2009
It is a book of hard-won wisdom and stark pleasure in the form of 500 lyrical aphorisms and epigrams.
He had no final answer to these questions, or rather, no neat aphorism that he cared to formulate as a philosophical truth. THE BROKEN GOD
A free Twitter account lets users "microblog," that is, publish short (140 characters tops) advice, aphorisms, and status updates (known as "Tweets") to others who have subscribed to their feed. Information Today News Breaks
Writer Chuck Klosterman weighed in on Grantland.com: "It sounds like what it is: an elderly misanthrope reciting paradoxical aphorisms over a collection of repetitive, adrenalized sludge licks. A Rocky Start to a Metal Marriage
This was one of the reasons that people spent more time making up pithy aphorisms and witty epigrams.
Life is not composed by aphorism, how can we decorate it with pompous cliche & 1 & s? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
This recalls Oscar Wilde's aphorism that in matters of great import, style is always more important than substance.
We have come many steps closer to what Elmer Diktonius put into words in one of his aphorisms: “If the purpose of art were to anaesthetize, to make us forget life, then a hammer-blow to the skull would be the simplest art, and the best” – though perhaps not quite in the way that Diktonius meant. Archive 2009-10-01
And the house flagrantly flaunts fortune cookies that contain ‘aphorisms’ instead of portents of kismet and fame (I urge you all to bitterly complain).
He waited a moment, and then laughed at his own aphorism. DOUBLE DECEIT
For him, the centrepieces of conversation were aphorisms, epigrams and paradoxes which seemed to trip effortlessly from his honeyed tongue.
a biting aphorism
It questions the bland aphorisms of beauty and raises the difficult issues of purity and exclusivity.
The sayings are in the form of proverbs, parables, aphorisms, and exhortations.
Froberg takes on the role of misanthropic sloganeer or street-corner proselytizer, belting out his apocalyptic aphorisms over furiously oscillating punk rock.
Age and hygienic necessities bind me to a somewhat anchoritic life in pure air, with abundant leisure to meditate upon the wisdom of Candide's sage aphorism, "Cultivons notre jardin" -- especially if the term garden may be taken broadly and applied to the stony and weed-grown ground within my skull, as well as to a few perches of more promising chalk down outside it. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
The trick was to give them such an alternative, which didn't require the mind of a rocket scientist, as the current aphorism went. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Nor does he have any sense of how his deployment of an aphorism about courage jars with his own personal conduct in ducking an election and a referendum in short order and his wider reputation for personal and political cowardice. Archive 2007-10-14
His eighth chapter - reproduced on this site from the Levy-Cantera translation - contained 120 aphorisms and generalizations on astrology, highly relevant for the art of horary.
Next time you hear a Monroe doctrinaire utter that the brand belongs to the consumer, just take the aphorism for what it is - just another delusion of branders.
Anton Corbijn Lou Reed center with members of Metallica in Gothernberg, Sweden this year: One critic called their new CD 'paradoxical aphorisms...repetitive, adrenalized sludge licks.' A Rocky Start to a Metal Marriage
The fact of the matter is that he has not put his money where his mouth is, to use the old aphorism.
Life is not composed by aphorism, how can we decorate it with pompous cliche & 1 & s? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
The word "sutra" means "thread" in Sanskrit but came to designate any pithy statement; the Diamond Sutra -- more accurately, the Diamond-Cutter Sutra -- was so called because the sharp facets of its aphorisms slice through the illusions of both mind and senses. Treasures on Trial
The Summum aphorisms include “the principle of psychokinesis” and “the principle of correspondence.” U.S. Supreme Court turns down Summum sect’s demand for religious display
From today painting is dead" is an aphorism often attributed to Paul Delaroche, a 19th-century French painter, upon seeing the first daguerreotypes though Wikipedia maintains there is no compelling evidence that he actually said it. Farewell to the fine art of focusing
Teaching Lou famous aphorism Kai people philosophizing and inspiring.
Doctors Tourniquet and Lancelot retired in disgust, menacing something like a general pestilence, in vengeance of what they termed rebellion against the neglect of the aphorisms of The Surgeon's Daughter
He waited a moment, and then laughed at his own aphorism. DOUBLE DECEIT
The pawpaw didn't hold out both hands and I took the grapefruit, which had more pith on it than an Oscar Wilde aphorism. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms.
Like most loved aphorisms, it contains a substantial truth, but also disguises the full truth.
He came to take great pleasure in his craft with words, honing them like his little wood sculptures, dreaming up pithy wisecracks and aphorisms which he collected and displayed in his office.
In a neat comment, which like many of his aphorisms contains a creative paradox, he says that ‘translation feeds a national literature’.
And finally, it was easy to adopt the aphorism that the attractions of life in the universe are in proportion to the destinies they assist in accomplishing -- "_attractions are proportionate to destinies_," as it is translated. Brook Farm
It is a book of hard-won wisdom and stark pleasure in the form of 500 lyrical aphorisms and epigrams.
A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms.
Procedural aggrandizement, which is perhaps best illustrated by Emmanuel Goldstein's aphorism "The object of power is power. Scrivener's Error
[Prima Philosophia -- pith and heart of sciences: the author of this aphorism is sound and grounded.] 'If they be not tossed on the waves of _counsel_, they will be _tossed on the waves of fortune_.' The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
Life, apparently, begins at 40, or so the old aphorism would have us believe.
Today, the old aphorism about power has been forgotten.
He did not write aphoristically, but his writing combined brilliant clarity with some of the properties of aphorism: vivid wit, terse enigmatic utterance, decoding left to the reader.
He would afterward think of Nietzsche's aphorism Around the hero, all things turn into tragedy; around the demigod, into a satyr-play. THE TATTOOED GIRL
A better aphorism from him, which should be pinned to the wall of every management consultant's office, was "progress, far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness". Will policy makers never learn from past mistakes?
The pawpaw didn't hold out both hands and I took the grapefruit, which had more pith on it than an Oscar Wilde aphorism. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
He had no final answer to these questions, or rather, no neat aphorism that he cared to formulate as a philosophical truth. THE BROKEN GOD
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But good aphorisms do not have to be meaningful in a strict sense.
There is no connection with the Vedas, and virtually no mathematical usefulness in these aphorisms.
But of all those astrological aphorisms which I have ever read, that of Cardan is most memorable, for which howsoever he is bitterly censured by [4763] Marinus Marcennus, a malapert friar, and some others (which [4764] he himself suspected) yet methinks it is free, downright, plain and ingenious. Anatomy of Melancholy
Some 20 years later, in a famous aphorism Omnis cellula e cellula, Rudolf Virchow annunciated that all cells arise only from pre-existing cells.
Taking this curious aphorism as the basis of his argument, he furthermore states his "grave apprehensions" that the withdrawal of any considerable number of militiamen from the city at this moment, when the depreciation of the currency is bearing heavily upon the masses of the people, "might tempt the lawless and evil-disposed to avail themselves of what might seem to them a favourable opportunity for arson and plunder," and for that reason "earnestly pretests against any material reduction" of the local force. Foreign and Colonial News
And those aphorisms can be of the nuttiest sort, as historian Andrew Roberts outlines for The Daily Beast. Gaddafi, the author
I thought up this aphorism, which I call The Hubbard Guarantee, for anything to do with Scientology: P2pnet news
This pithy aphorism graphically tells us the sad state of affairs on the roads of India.
Life is not composed by aphorism,how can we decorate it with pompous cliches? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
The trick was to give them such an alternative, which didn't require the mind of a rocket scientist, as the current aphorism went. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Jeff: The Olympics has another aphorism, " The most important thing is to participate.
Thus, the reactions to Socialism were largely focused on its oddities: young children on a boat who speak in abstract aphorisms, other shots narrated by zoo animals — all of which would be easier to comprehend if they were subtitled in full, instead of "approximated" in what Godard calls the fragmented "Navajo English" of old Westerns. Out of Breath
The hinge of the mirth was made to turn upon the irresistible drollery of one man's running away with another man's wife, and the outrageous fun of the consequent suicide of the injured husband; the _bons mots_ being most tragically humorous, and the aphorisms of the several characters facetiously concatenative of the nouns contained in the leading name of the piece -- "_Love_ and _Murder_. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841
He reminds me of the old aphorism that if you try to make a product idiot-proof, the world will make a better idiot.
And to top it all off, there are aphorisms, rubrics, musings, meditations, exhalations, exasperations.
Or as the narrator puts it in a smart aphorism of his own about Beard: "Like many clever men who prize objectivity, he was a solipsist at heart. Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review)
Many blogs feature in their heading a maxim, aphorism, saying, adage, axiom, saw, proverb, epigram or precept.
It is not a pedagogical treatise, it is the reflections of an artist upon art in aphorisms of penetrating insight, ready wit, and profound wisdom.
Of those numbers we are obliged to say they confirm the truth in the Disraeli aphorism, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.’
The pawpaw didn't hold out both hands and I took the grapefruit, which had more pith on it than an Oscar Wilde aphorism. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
Refusing to build a system or to allow his philosophy to be systematized, he writes in aphorisms.
But good aphorisms do not have to be meaningful in a strict sense.
In so doing he commits himself to defend all the failings and foolishness which characterize it with his every word and deed. — - Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit, ch iv in Schopenhauers Sämmtliche Werke in fünf Bänden, vol. 4, p. 242 (S.H. transl.) # posted by Anderson: 5: 51 PM Balkinization
Better late than never’ is one of those hoary aphorisms hauled out by those who prefer soundbites to scrutiny.
Sheikh Mo, who fancies himself a prophet of modernisation, likes to impress visitors with clever proverbs and heavy aphorisms.
Most of the Sutras in short enigmatic aphorisms were written as treatises to the earlier schools of philosophical thoughts.
Shortly after I moved to the US from Canada - no, we aren’t all as scientifically ignorant as Byer’s, I coined the aphorism: Chris Comer loses appeal - The Panda's Thumb
This recalls Oscar Wilde's aphorism that in matters of great import, style is always more important than substance.
While this quote, or aphorism, is an excellent one and contains some truth, it is not an esoteric one: that is, it does not express the complete truth about life, individuals, reality, law and evolution which the ONA seeks to express. Satanism Exposed: The ONA Fake Org | Disinformation
In 1620 he published his Novum organum, presenting his philosophy of science in the form of aphorisms, many of them memorable.
This aphorism relies for its force, of course, on the transgressive nature of the behaviour it alludes to.
For by this appetite the soul is led or inclined to follow that good which the senses shall approve, or avoid that which they hold evil: his object being good or evil, the one he embraceth, the other he rejecteth; according to that aphorism, Omnia appetunt bonum, all things seek their own good, or at least seeming good. Anatomy of Melancholy
Famous for his well-honed aphorisms, Burt's phlegmatic response to such negative developments was to say: ‘If you don't try things, you're doomed to failure’.
In all these examples an aphorism as a general truth makes a powerful point in its present context, but it could also make good sense in a very different context.
And the loveable curmudgeon is responsible for most of literature's best quotations, maxims and aphorisms.
Politics is the art of the possible, as the old aphorism puts it, and progress is usually incremental.
Edison's method was to doggedly persist in searching for an answer to a problem, expressed in his memorable aphorism that invention is ‘ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.’
It is a book of aphorisms - short, pithy, philosophical nuggets.
English-language books of aphorisms are most likely to be shelved in the ‘personal growth’ section, offering comforting and uplifting thoughts to help us through the day.
In Satellitium animi (The Soul's Escort, 1524), a collection of aphorisms dedicated to Princess Mary, he points out that “man knows as far as he can make” (IV, 63). Juan Luis Vives [Joannes Ludovicus Vives]
He would afterward think of Nietzsche's aphorism Around the hero, all things turn into tragedy; around the demigod, into a satyr-play. THE TATTOOED GIRL

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