In regard to language, democratic nations prefer obscurity to labor. Alexis de Tocqueville Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.
Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear. Joseph Joubert Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.
If science tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water, it is all wrong. Samuel Butler (II) Welcome to Zena’s…
In merciless and rollicking comedy life is caught in the act. George Santayana Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.
In mixed company, women practice a sort of visual shorthand, which, later, they will laboriously and at great length decode in the company of other women. Malcolm de Chazal Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know…
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe. Alfred North Whitehead Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms):…
