Apothegms Quotes

#1. Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

Thomas Hood

#2. Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

Desiderius Erasmus

#3. Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

Plutarch

#4. There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.

Brander Matthews

#5. A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.

Horace Walpole

#6. Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#7. Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

Tryon Edwards

#8. The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

Larry Dossey

#9. Near and hard
to grasp
Is the God.
But where danger is
Deliverance also grows

Friedrich Holderlin

#10. The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. Well, I'm freezing. Either one of us is going to have to check or we'll have to start cuddling."
Sicarius climbed the ladder.
"There's something wrong with a man who chooses to face death over cuddling with a woman.

Lindsay Buroker

#12. People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

Gore Vidal

#13. What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

Susan Rice

#14. I really think you can manifest your dreams. You can manifest your destiny. If you want something hard enough and you're willing to work for it, I think you can get it. I truly believe that.

Billy Magnussen

#15. The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored.

Montserrat Caballe

#17. They weren't even taking me seriously enough to bother removing my guns, which I took as a personal insult.

Rachel Bach

#18. I own your pleasure, sweet Ellie. You come when I say you can, understood?

M.S. Force

#19. You speak evil of that which is fair beyond the reach of your thought, and only little wit can excuse you.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

Matthew Gray Gubler