I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don`t inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it`s the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
- Sam WaterstonBy 2000, he had embarked on an ambitious series of figure paintings, usually captioned with an aphorism from poetry or philosophy, and charged with stark physical and metaphysical deliberations.
- William PetersonAn aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
- Alex GarwoodAn aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience
- Francis Herbert Bradley