aphorisms
- plural of aphorism.
Example Sentences
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Aphorisms from his mother, who died in 2002, have been a staple of his campaign language for years.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2021
Aphorisms supply the same kind of pleasure as the first morning on a new island—a reprieve from feeling too deeply embedded in a time or place.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
Summum, ruling that a Utah city did not have to allow a minor religion to erect a monument to its Seven Aphorisms near a Ten Commandments monument in a public park.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2014
Aphorisms don't make an argument… Jasper Britton as Jack and Nina Toussaint-White as Susan in Race.
From The Guardian • May 30, 2013
Men are not inconsolable for elderly Wives; as Sir Walter Scott, who was not given to caustic Aphorisms, observed long ago.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis
