APOTHEGMS

Alger, William R.
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

Bacon, Francis
Nor do apothegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.

Cervantes, Saavedra M de
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

Erasmus, Desiderius
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

Johnson, Samuel
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in few words.

Joubert, Joseph
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth.— Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted on the memory they fortify and strengthen the will.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action.

Murray, James A.
Nothing hits harder, or sticks longer in the memory, than an apothegm.

Plutarch
Under the veil of these curious sentences are hid those germs of morals which the masters of philosophy have afterwards developed into so many volumes.

Ramsay, Andrew M.
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

Simmons, Charles
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words.—If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

Tillotson, John
The short sayings of wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks of diamonds.