Aphorisms

Source: https://literarydevices.net/aphorism/
  • Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old age regret. [Benjamin Disraeli]
  • Pride goeth before a fall. [Proverb]
  • The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. [William Faulkner]
  • Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. [Benjamin Franklin]
  • Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream. [Khalil Gibran]
  • The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. [Northrop Frye]
  • …even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it. [John Keats]
  • Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. [Rudyard Kipling]
 
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