aphorist

American  

[af-er-ist] / ˈæf ər ɪst /

noun

1. a person who makes or uses aphorisms.

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Etymology

Origin of aphorist

First recorded in 1705–15; aphor(ize) + -ist

Example Sentences

“When we feel that we cannot gain the good opinion of another,” the 18th-century French aphorist Vauvenargues wrote, “we come very near to hating him.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 15, 2018

Steinberg wasn’t a graphic novelist; he was a graphic aphorist.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2018

“The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake,” said Savielly Tartakower, a Polish grandmaster from the first half of the 20th century and the game’s greatest aphorist.

From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2016

Mr. Plummer proves himself an aphorist worthy of inclusion alongside Oscar Wilde and Oscar Levant when he says that middle age is “when you stop combing your hair and start arranging it.”

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2012

One of our wisest authors, himself a great aphorist, says,—"Proverbs are the sanctuaries of the intuitions."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various