Associations to the word «Aphorism»

Wiktionary

APHORISM, noun. An original laconic phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought.

Dictionary definition

APHORISM, noun. A short pithy instructive saying.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope