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Aphorism: a short, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about life.
A small collection:

A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw


All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
Peter Wastholm

Take care of luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
Dorothy Parker

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
Doug Horton

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Gustave Flaubert

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination
Oscar Wilde

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
Edmond Jules Goncourt

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Voltaire

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
Unknown

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up.
Pablo Picasso

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti

Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision?
Marilyn Monroe

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde

Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain

Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
D. H. Lawrence

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi

After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Marcus Porcius Cato

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
William Osler

Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
Doug Horton

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Friedrich Nietzsche

A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire

I LOVE APHORISMS.