aphorism

APHORISM:

A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principal. (If the authorship is unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb.) An aphorism can be a memorable summation of the author's point. Sometimes aphorisms rhyme, sometimes they have repeated words or phrases, and sometimes they have two parts that are of the same grammatical structure.

Famous Aphorists:
 * Mark Twain
 * Winston Churchill
 * Confucius
 * Benjamin Franklin
 * The Dalai Lama

Examples:

“All hat, no cattle.”

“George W. Bush was head cheerleader in prep school, a hard-partying frat rat and mediocre student at Yale. After skirting the draft in 1968, he failed at business three times, got bailed out by powerful friends, made a fortune at taxpayer expense and became the popular but weak governor of Texas, an evangelical Christian who preaches morality but ducks questions about his own past. And now he is president?” – Rolling Stone Magazine

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” -Ben Franklin



"Everyone gets fifteen minutes of fame." – Andy warhol



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Citations:

"Cartoon Stock-Ben Franklin ." cartoon stock. CSL. 27 Sep 2007 <[|http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/directory/s/shortage.asp>.]

"Andy Warhol Cartoons." Cartoon. CSL. 27 Sep 2007 <[|http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/directory/s/shortage.asp>.]

Triskoky, Micheal. "Aphorism." Aphorisms use. 27 Sep 2007 <[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphorism>.]

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