Aphorisms

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Vladimir Nabokov
Airplanes
Aphorisms
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Karl Kraus
Time
Aphorisms
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Elias Canetti
Aphorisms
Writers
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
Anatole Broyard
Aphorisms
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
F. H. Bradley
Heart
Aphorisms
Blood
Epigrams