Bestselling author and happiness expert Gretchen Rubin has distilled life lessons into a new book of aphorisms, "Secrets of ...

“Aphorism” is a slightly vague term, especially compared to some of its grammar fellows. An aphorism doesn’t have to follow any strict grammatical rule, unlike palindromes or pangrams ...

The aphorism means: We do take pleasure—not in every case, perhaps, but more often than we might admit—in the misfortune of our best friends.

Splitting Semantic Hairs: The words "proverb," "adage," "maxim" and "aphorism," which are used interchangeably here, are pretty much synonymous. A proverb, according to the World Book Dictionary ...

An aphorism is a short or pithy statement that expresses a general truth. Some aphorisms are truisms, obvious on their face, but they still convey useful ideas. One of the best known aphorisms is ...

James Geary has gathered examples of what he calls the oldest and shortest literary art form on the planet — the aphorism — into a compendium, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists. He ...

The modern aphorism may be modelled on the classical, but it adds to the form a degree of self-consciousness about its own power, motion, drive.

All ways lead to the wayfarer. The long lineage of literature’s shortest form, the aphorism, extends from the mythical Hippocrates of Greek antiquity, through the Renaissance, Erasmus and ...

It was on Sept. 2, 1901, when Vice President Teddy Roosevelt created the aphorism “Speak softly and carry a big stick, and ...