Quotes About Apothegm

#1. The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth ... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

William Gilmore Simms

#2. The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#3. That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

Lao-Tzu

#5. The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

Frederick Lenz

#6. My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

#7. For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

Virginia Woolf

#8. When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.

Joe Torre

#9. Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

#10. The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

Oscar Wilde

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William McDonald

#12. You can't buy happiness

Kurt Cobain

#13. Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

H.L. Mencken

#14. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Victor Hugo

#15. That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.

David Amram

#16. Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

#17. Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must walk mentally around time, using a variety of approaches, a pandemonium of metaphor.

Robert Grudin

#18. The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

Michel Legrand

#19. I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

Jessica Sanchez

#20. It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#21. I always liked 'Green Lantern,' but I wasn't necessarily a diehard fan. I read stories here and there when I came across them.

Cullen Bunn

#22. She looked at him - those wide blue eyes - with sort of an odd, glazed look. Not with the adoration or wonder that you might expect, more like she'd been drinking and would be leaving as soon as she found her car keys.

Christopher Moore