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

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.

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

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 ...

He shares the rules he uses to identify an aphorism. Special Series Driveway Moments. A Quotable, Pithy Guide to Aphorists. October 2, 2007 2:32 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered.

In our millennium, a time of reduction and minimization, the aphorism has rightly returned. Its master is Róbert Gál. Born in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1968 and now living in Prague, ...