Aphorisms is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for APHORISMS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• APHORISM, a concise statement of a truth
• a pithy observation which contains a general truth
• a concise statement of a scientific principle, typically by a classical author
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a brief statement of a truth or principle

Words related to APHORISMS

aphorism15

Words that contain APHORISMS

adiaphorisms20

How to use APHORISMS in a sentence

• I remember the paradoxes and the aphorisms, if not the exact words, the glamour and the sentiment of a humour that was all thy own.
• On this point I would remind you of certain aphorisms in the marriage catechism from which you will see that you are violating its most sacred precepts.
• Hillel, fifty years before him, had given utterance to aphorisms very analogous to his own.
• Jesus, son of Sirach, and Hillel, had uttered aphorisms almost as exalted as those of Jesus.
• They approved of the composition but, as the aphorisms were concise, asked for fuller explanations.
• According to Paramârtha the original work consisted of 600 aphorisms in verse which were sent by the author to the monks of Kashmir.
• He could elucidate the trend of Indian thought better than any shaman I had hitherto met, and his talk was full of aphorisms and opinions with reference to Indian views of life.
• I was especially attracted by some volumes which contained aphorisms, thoughts, and observations on conduct, selected from ancient and modern writers and thinkers.
• Cardan set forth this view of the case in a voluminous document, founding the course of treatment he proposed to pursue upon the aphorisms of Galen.
• He already showed the power, in which he was probably unequalled, of coining aphorisms out of commonplace.
• The worker in moral aphorisms cannot forget himself even in the full swing of his fervid declamation.
• But it was only in his aphorisms that he was so dark and oracular.
• His writings on Agriculture contain much real science, with numerous illustrative incidents, anecdotes, and aphorisms, all in the most lively and pleasing manner.
• He writes long-winded letters, utters Spartan aphorisms, and complains of his colleagues, his generals, and his troops.
• But this is not the case with aphorisms about the gentler sex.
• Mill, in his little fragment on Aphorisms, has said that in the first kind of wisdom every age in which science flourishes ought to surpass the ages that have gone before.
• I do not myself find Gracian much of a companion, though some of his aphorisms give a neat turn to a commonplace.
• Although in form the book is but a stringing together of stories, incidents, and aphorisms, still the whole produces a distinct effect.
• His aphorisms often crystallized a neglected truth in a form all his own.
• They are for the most part the didactic aphorisms which greatly pleased our worthy ancestors during the middle of the eighteenth century and later.
• But, like most aphorisms of unassailable wisdom, it is completely ignored.
• Besides, were not her aphorisms superior to those of her husband? The cold face of Sir JOHN grew eloquent in protest.
• The best aphorisms are pointed expressions of the results of observation, experience, and reflection.
• There are false, cynical, mean, devilish aphorisms, as well as sound and worthy ones.
• These family aphorisms were sometimes semi-legal, sometimes semi-scriptural in turn of phrase, and built on a foundation of homely philosophy.

Similar words containing APHORISM without suffix s

aphorism15 adiaphorism19 adiaphorisms20

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