Sample Sentences foraphorism (editor-reviewed)
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She often quotes St. Augustine's aphorism, "Love the sinner and hate the sin."aphorism = short saying intended to impart wisdom
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It demonstrates the aphorism, "A picture is worth a thousand words."
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The viewpoint is often expressed in the aphorism, "The ends justify the means."
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He shared his latest aphorism: "Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long." (source)aphorism = short, wise saying
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I had prepared myself for that, and even thought of several positive, uplifting aphorisms to cheer him up. (source)aphorisms = short sayings intended to impart wisdom
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Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept, that "Whatever is is right;" an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence, that nothing that ever was, was wrong. (source)aphorism = short saying intended to impart wisdom
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She had a store of aphorisms which she dished out as the occasion demanded. (source)aphorisms = short sayings intended to impart wisdom
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He could still hear his father speaking the old New England aphorism: If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong. (source)aphorism = short saying intended to impart wisdom
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He would be an aphorist of last things, giving me the barest glance—civilized, ironic—as he spoke his deft and stylish line about my journey out.† (source)
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ESTRAGON: (aphoristic for once).† (source)
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Nothing could have been less consonant with Selden's mood than Van Alstyne's after-dinner aphorisms, but as long as the latter confined himself to generalities his listener's nerves were in control. (source)aphorisms = short sayings intended to impart wisdom
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After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.† (source)
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It had many imitators, and founded an aphoristic style of writing which culminated in the essays of Emerson, often mere strings of sonorous certainties, defectively articulated.† (source)
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There were company-wide notices about each day's menus, each day's weather, each day's words of the wise—last week's aphorisms were from MLK, Gandhi, Salk, Mother Teresa and Steve Jobs.† (source)
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For now, the convenient aphorism "kids from other, harder schools" is metamorphosing into real flesh and bone.† (source)
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I thought them admirably suited to the subject, little Zen-like aphorisms for each photograph.† (source)
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