Syllables govern the world.
(John Selden: Table Talk.)
Κατηγορία: Aphorisms
Jules Renard, «Look…»
Look for the ridiculous in everything
and you will find it.
(Jules Renard: Journal.)
Benjamin Whichcote, «All expectation…»
All expectation hath
something of torment.
(Benjamin Whichcote: Moral and Religious Aphorisms.)
Xavier Forneret, «The future…»
The future is a mirror
without any glass in it.
(Xavier Forneret.)
Emerson, «I pay the schoolmaster…»
I pay the schoolmaster,
but it’s the schoolboys
that educate my son.
(Emerson: Journal.)
Vauvenargues, «The things…»
The things we know best
are the things we haven’t been taught.
(Vauvenargues: Reflections and Maxims.)
Emerson, «The cherubim…»
The cherubim know most;
the seraphim love most.
(Emerson: Essays.)
Joel Chandler Harris, «Ole man…»
Ole man Know-All died las’ year.
(Joel Chandler Harris: Plantation Proverbs.)
Hazlitt, «Nothing…»
Nothing was ever learned
by either side in a dispute.
(Hazlitt: On the Conversation of Authors.)
John Stuart Mill, «He who knows…»
He who knows only his own side
of the case knows little of that.
(John Stuart Mill: On Liberty.)