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Discussions: What are your favorite Aphorisms and who do you think are the greatest Aphorist?

What are your favorite Aphorisms and who do you think are the greatest Aphorist?

Started by Summer H, Saturday, February 23 2008. Last post Saturday, February 23 2008.

Here are a few of mine:

Elizabeth Bibseco
"We go through life expecting to be tasted, while we are being swallowed."

Koos Van Zomeren
"We don't want memories to tell the truth, we want memories that make us happy."

Francesco Guicciardini
"Prosperity procures friends, but adversity proves them."

Heraclitus
"Opposites cooperate. The most beautiful harmonies come from opposition. All things repel each other."

Charles Caleb Colton
"Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For, as it surrounds us with friends, who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects."

Josh Billings
"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."