Examples of aphorism

• Their studies provide elegant confirmation of the aphorism that cells that fire together, wire together.

• The text is sprinkled with general observations followed by simplistic aphorisms.

• This aphorism is obscure as it makes clear neither the meaning of extreme diseases nor that of extreme diet.

• There are few abstracts, no philosophizing other than the occasional cynical aphorism.

• He used aphorisms to experiment or "live through" propositions for living, but the life he envisioned was the life of the self-creating individual.

• The brief space of this presentation lends itself to a narrative of aphorisms.

• Like proverbs and aphorisms, gossip provides a valuable communicative code for the symbolic interaction that is taking place within the highly fragmented and segregated social worlds of the old.

• Proverbs is a catalogue of 1,100 aphorisms, each tabulated as a set of translation equivalents.