aphorisms

[|Aphorisms]

A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion

Examples:

-For myself I am an optimist ・it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

-A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

-History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

-It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

-(in words of a child) when a singer sings, he stirs up the air and makes it hit any passing eardrum. But if he is good, he knows how to keep it from hurting.