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Sunday, May 12th, 2024
the Seventh Sunday after Easter

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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Aphorisms'

6 entries

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher (1846-1924)

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Anatole Broyard, American Critic (1920-1990)

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

Elias Canetti, Swiss Author (1905-1994)

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer (1874-1936)

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist (1899-1977)

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, -

6 entries