Sometimes Allison's aphorisms have a more contemporary sound: He's a big fan of Ayn Rand.
Lamoriello, a man who tends to speak in aphorisms and absolutes, argues that it is.
His latest book is The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Random House: 2010).
'IF YOU EAT LUNCH, YOU ARE LUNCH, ' is one of the more memorable aphorisms of this age.
He never mentioned the two balls in the water, instead offering one of his signature aphorisms: Think like a track star.
They usually take the form of aphorisms that seem to be true.
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He would doubtless approve of another of Harold Wilson's aphorisms.
The monthly was a Ben Franklinesque periodical larded with aphorisms about life, health and business, as well as essays by Hubbard and guest writers like Stephen Crane, along with ads for the Roycrofters.
This book crackles with wisecracks and chuckle-inducing aphorisms.
But I began to wonder are there people out there like me who have tried to toss off aphorisms as such or are they usually just chips that accidentally shoot out from the lobal lathes of great thinkers and writers?
In his recollections of important events he invariably portrayed himself as a man of uncanny prescience and leadership skills not to mention the ready dispenser of brilliant aphorisms, the choicest of which still trip off the tongues of Turkish school children.
Another day, we followed the despotic comments and idle comings and goings of a middle-aged Englishman the island was heaving with English people who kept up a kind of running commentary on the temperature, the sand, the wind, and the waves, speaking as emphatically and grandiloquently as if he were uttering a series of deep, long-pondered aphorisms.
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