Aphorisms: The Best Collection of Wise Words and Sayings.

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Unlocking Wisdom, One Witty Aphorism at a Time!


Everybody said, ‘Follow your heart.’ I did, it got broken.
Agatha Christie


“Every word has consequences. Every silence too.”
— Jean Paul Sartre


“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver


‘Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.’

— Plato


"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel."
-- Horace Walpole


“Sincerity is the key. If you can fake that then you’ve got it made.”
-Groucho Marx


“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.“
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina


“And what is better than wisdom? Woman.
And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer


“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa


"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

-- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl



Serving Up Sage Advice with a Twist of Irony!


''The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.''

~ Marcus Aurelius


“Hell is empty
And all the devils are here.”
By William Shakespeare, The Tempest


Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.
- Roy T. Bennett


“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
~Voltaire


′′ If I could give you one thing in life, I'd love to give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes."
- Frida Kahlo


“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
By Oscar Wilde, THE CRITIC AS ARTIST


"Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious."
Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul


The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato


“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar


"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
— George Orwell, 1984



Aphorisms and Sayings: Where Paradoxical Wisdom Reigns Supreme!


“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
-Marie Curie


"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
--- Samuel Beckett


"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
— James Bryce


“It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.”
― Ella Fitzgerald


“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ”
― Lord Byron


‘Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.’ -
Oscar Wilde,


"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."
~ P.G. Wodehouse


“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
James Baldwin


“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
― Plato


“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”
— Cicero



Quirky Aphorisms and Sayings: A Playground for the Witty Mind!


"All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire."
• Edgar Allan Poe


Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ~Charles Schultz.


Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
~Oscar Wilde


"Sometimes you have to talk so that the silence doesn't say everything."
~ Herta Müller


“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe


“I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again —”
— Georgia O’Keeffe


Рыбалка в старости - это когда пьёшь водку возле аквариума.


“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
— Leonard Cohen


"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over.
Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
Kurt Vonnegut


Закончив приставания извинениями, можно обидеть любую женщину.



Embrace the Paradox: Unveiling the Hidden Truths in Aphorisms!


Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
– Mark Twain


There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
Edgar Allan Poe


“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.”
~Stephen King


“That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
—Henry David Thoreau


''To love oneself is the beginning of a lifetime romance.''
–Oscar Wilde


“Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”
John Barrymore


'Nothing is necessary for a young man as much as the company of an intelligent woman.'
— Leo Tolstoy


« We build too many walls and not enough bridges. »

Isaac Newton


We never really grow up, we just learn to act in public.


And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche



Aphorisms and Quotes: Where Contradictions Spark Enlightenment!


“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
— Horace Walpole


Mistakes are the portals of discovery.


“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus


Don't tell people to respect their elders. Be an elder worth respecting.


“Whatever you do in this life, it’s not legendary unless your friends are there to see it.”
- Barney Stinson


A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstances.
~Hunter S. Thompson


Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

- Rudyard Kipling


“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
- Henry David Thoreau


“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
— Seneca


"If you want to reach a large audience, appeal to idiots.”
-- Schopenhauer



Aphorisms: The Art of Puzzling Wisdom with a Dash of Humor!


"The beautiful is always bizarre."

~ Charles Baudelaire


When I was younger I could see into the future. Now, I'm getting all my premonitions as flashbacks.

-- Steven Wright


Ingratitude is a special kind of theft.
-A.Y.Bratus


The other day, I accidentally spilled spot remover on my dog. Now, he's not there anymore...

--Steven Wright


"Every word has consequences. Every silence, too."
— Jean Paul Sartre


" Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words."
• Pythagoras


"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
—Virginia Woolf


Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
– Voltaire


It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
~Marcus Aurelius


To a great mind, nothing is little.
• Sherlock Holmes


Irony Unleashed: Unveiling the Unexpected in Aphorisms and Quotes!


"The tears of the world are a constant quantity.For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops.The same is true of laugh."
~ Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot


"A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."
By Emily Brontë


" Try to learn something about everything and everything about something "

~ Thomas Henry Huxley


" Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

~ Confucius


"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
By William Shakespeare, Hamlet


"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

-Eleanor Roosevelt


" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

By Leonard Cohen


" In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
it goes on . "

• Robert Frost


"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."

• René Descartes


"If you are born poor, it is not your mistake. But if you die poor, it's your fault. "

-Bill Gates




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