单词 | aphorism |
例句 | Always, previously, in an emergency we could throw out something in Greek, under the guise of an aphorism or quotation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He shared his latest aphorism: “Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He found the stricken rider distracting himself from his pain by firing off aphorisms from Ralph Waldo Emerson—“Old Waldo”—at the nurses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the jockeys’ room he orchestrated a string of clever practical jokes, sequestered himself in corners to pore over literature, and mystified his fellow jocks with aphorisms from Omar Khayyam and “Old Waldo” Emerson. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a store of aphorisms which she dished out as the occasion demanded. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I sum it up in my newest aphorism,” he said. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had seen him like this only one other time—when he was getting massaged—and the echo of his aphorism “When you’re in bed, you’re dead” began anew inside my head. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Actually, Carolina didn’t talk much at all, but when she did open her mouth it seemed sentences never emerged, only aphorisms, called “dichos.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, the truth of the aphorism “clothes make the man” came home to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while, he had more than fifty of these “aphorisms,” which he shared with his friends. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had prepared myself for that, and even thought of several positive, uplifting aphorisms to cheer him up. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z As the sinuous sentences unfold, aphorism following insight, metaphor converted into syllogism, we realize Proust is as rigorous a thinker as he is fabulist, heir to Descartes, companion to Freud. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z He distills his wisdom down to aphorisms that he will drop into regular conversation: “My glass is always half-full.” How a small-town pitmaster turned a dying cuisine into the stuff of celebrity 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Master Yoda’s aphorisms up against an inscrutable textbook is a battle that may end in a tie. Force of argument: why Jediism should be recognised as a religion 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z But considering “Walden” in the context of Thoreau’s life makes a richer and far more sympathetic book than its collection of metaphysical aphorisms would suggest. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z He shows up on screen early, a tall, charismatic, silver-bearded gentleman with a fondness for quasi-mystical aphorisms about money, desire and memory. ‘The Dance of Reality,’ Jodorowsky’s Comeback Film 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Performing one song each, they grasped at some strands of Mr. Bowie’s achievements: his bounding riffs and encompassing melodies, the aphorisms and enigmas of his lyrics, his arty stratagems, his fashion sense. Review: Remembering David Bowie, With One Artist and One Song at a Time 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Barely a page goes by without an acute observation or pithy aphorism. The money trap 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z He arrived with his most celebrated aphorism: "I have nothing to declare but my genius." Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z Instead she finds a worthy opponent who parries her provocations with scholarly citations and elegant aphorisms. DVD: Gleason as Tripster, Groucho as God 2011-07-22T05:27:59Z But Mills has no sense of how to film dialogue; he just films his actors talking, and their aphorisms remain unset gems that are tossed out and scattered, their effect quickly dissipated. Mike Mills’s Too-Sweet “20th Century Women” 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The 18-minute skit could be a comic summary of her many marriages, and an inspiration for another of Zsa Zsa aphorism: “You never really know a man until you have divorced him.” Zsa Zsa Gabor Dead at 99: It Was Divine Knowing Her 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z He offered a script of aphorisms about living in a democracy, being a good loser, and respecting opinions different from our own. How I Explained the Election to My Six-Year-Old Daughter 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Printed on the tray was an aphorism attributed to GK Chesterton: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z He was just as likely to paste in a witty meme-like aphorism. Remembering Richard Buckley 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z He also spouts new age-y aphorisms like, “The only life path is the one behind you.” David Fincher cast the wrong "Killer" in the Netflix thriller that lacks the auteur's usual edge 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z “The Next Person” is so packed with sweet aphorisms that it’s like scrolling through the Instagram account of a New Age masseuse. Review | Reading ‘The Next Person You Meet in Heaven’ is hell 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z As aphorism 146 from Nietzsche’s “Beyond Good and Evil” says, “And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z The two people onstage are conspicuously playing chess; they also make toast, fiddle with a radio, drink tea and trade disconnected aphorisms and anecdotes. Review: In ‘Chess Match No. 5,’ the Words of John Cage, Deconstructed 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z But what may sound like an vaguely aspirational aphorism has a very specific meaning, that happens to hold particular promise for an industry in the midst of intense self-examination, and equally intense avoidance thereof. Perspective | Enough with naming and shaming: It’s time for restorative justice in Hollywood. 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z He is about to release a collection of his long-accruing aphorisms about music, ethics and creativity in three sets of 78 cards each, the same number as a Tarot deck. Robert Fripp Lightens Up 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” used the Faulkner aphorism “The past is never dead; it’s not even past” as a joke. ‘Southern Comfort’ and 'Hearts and Minds' on DVD 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z But at the same time it grossly underestimates the amount of determination and technical ingenuity needed to make sure that the aphorism continues to hold good. John Naughton on WikiLeaks 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z It sounds great, but actually when you examine it, it’s a way of defining an entire people with an easy kind of aphorism. Of Booze, Brutal Honesty and Family: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z The book is as much personal remembrance as strategic reflection, and is chock-full of aphorisms and enigmatic adages. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Each Oblique Strategy had a different aphorism: “Accept advice,” read one. Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies: the famous deck of cards behind "Another Green World" 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z He and his sinister side-parting investigate the dread deed, ably backed up by the CPS massive, spouting trite aphorisms about "caring too much" and generally behaving like actors rather than proper legal professionals. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-07T07:59:00Z Some stuff is just too good to be used only once – especially when it has ear-worm or aphorism potential. Aaron Sorkin's verbal tics and self-plagiarism's technical impossibility 2012-07-09T13:00:00Z Publishers Weekly predicted it "should prove itself a classic" with its "savory recipes, witty anecdotes, delightful aphorisms and fascinating folklore." Writer Nava Atlas reflects on the (vegan) return of her cult-classic "Vegetariana" cookbook 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Raised on the Gospels and the metaphysical aphorisms of Mary Baker Eddy, I regarded Thoreau’s book as a loamy version of “Science and Health.” Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z In classic style, the play introduces each as she arrives, spouting a bright, brittle aphorism or offering a capsule preview of her character. Review: The Many Unusual Stages of ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z I will also remember his great book of aphorisms compiled by local author David Sheilds, "The Understated Ichiro," and namesake bubble tea at Ambrosia Café in the International District: blueberry yogurt with tapioca. Ben Gibbard's Ichiro song, and other ephemera 2012-07-24T23:54:26Z Shakespeare's words stick in your head like aphorisms. Le Morte d'Arthur: The RSC throw down the gauntlet 2010-06-06T20:31:00Z She then demolished her aphorism's smug certainties by revealing how many tales — especially those from her own memory — were false. Facts not what they appear in Barnes' novella 2011-10-26T21:52:03Z Kay also delivers the political literature to the members of her book club, mainly elderly women, who become comically enthusiastic acolytes of violent revolution, spouting Mao’s aphorisms and eagerly, if obliviously, anticipating bloodshed. Woody Allen’s Secondhand Sixties Radicalism 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Treatment literature is so full of metaphor and neat aphorisms, it lends itself naturally to an enjoyably Easter Egg-laden story structure such as this. Stuck on repeat: what is Netflix’s Russian Doll actually about? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Now place Sacha Baron Cohen and the work he’s been doing on “Who Is America?” into the context of this aphorism. “Who Is America?”: What Sacha Baron Cohen’s non-famous subjects say about who we are now 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z When I first came across this, I thought it witty; now I find it – as I do many aphorisms – a slick untruth. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z Worse, a diet heavy in sweet aphorisms makes discerning reflections on life taste all the more unappetizing. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z It also provides a rich supply of what Christie's called "typically idiosyncratic aphorisms and observations". Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z Essays, aphorisms and other eclectic nonfiction from one of the 20th century’s great thinkers and prose stylists. New & Noteworthy, From Missing Dad to Quitting God 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Music is often thought of as inherently good, a view exemplified in the playwright Wilhelm Congreve's oft-cited aphorism "music hath charms to soothe a savage breast." How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Then there are the various references throughout to six Kraus aphorisms. Monday Evening Concerts is back with a bang, whimper, whistle, click and clang in 'Sideshow' 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z She has a gift for aphorism, the observation that astonishes. Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z New helpers from the community include the exuberant Cassandra, a vet tech at their local animal hospital who breathlessly doles out free vaccinations and aphorisms. Kids Love Multi-Volume Series About Big Families. No Wonder. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z A lot of trashy pop culture aphorisms say more about the human condition than the latest thinker is saying in three volumes of their work. Andrew Weatherall: 'Never take the Guardian on to a building site' 2013-02-06T16:50:00Z Still, while we're here, time for one last Will Young aphorism, from page 72: "Don't drink and drive, obviously – it's stupid and reckless." Clash of the celebrity memoirs 2012-12-10T17:04:59Z Vidal's critics disparaged his tendency to formulate an aphorism rather than to argue, finding in his work an underlying note of contempt for those who did not agree with him. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z So while he waits to upgrade to a bigger space, he keeps corgi magnets on his fridge that display the aphorisms “I rock the belly flop” and “Life is short, so are my legs.” Antoni Porowski Can Cook 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z During Bill Clinton’s successful bid for the presidency, one of his campaign aphorisms was “It’s the economy, stupid!” From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z Social snobbery; razor-sharp aphorisms; and competition over men, names and cucumber sandwiches drive the action until the fateful confession of a former governess delivers an orderly conclusion. Review: Wilde’s Wacky ‘Earnest,’ Now With Arias 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z He tends to speak bluntly and without flourishes — lacking fashion’s propensity for charismatic aphorisms. Reed Krakoff takes on the fashion world with help from D.C. fans, including Michelle Obama Schoenberg's Six Little Piano Pieces are aphorisms, most lasting less than a minute. Andsnes adds a bit of emotion to his repertoire 2011-04-04T17:07:00Z In fancy A-line skirts and crop tops; coats scrawled with poetry and aphorisms; bright, rugby striped knits; all of it a sort of explosion of gritty glamour. In Milan, Fashion Tries to Go Back to Normal. What Does That Even Mean? 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The stirring aphorisms, which trim the upper-level halls and stairwells, shine some additional light on an already bright decor — artichoke-green exterior, milk-white interior, fetching artworks. Affirmative: The Charlotte Hotel’s a delight Often, these interpretations are compressed into vivid slogans, memes or aphorisms: information "wants to be free"; the "long tail" is the future of retailing; "Facebook just seized control of the internet", and so on. Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z Sciarrino describes the set as "a constellation not of normal movements, nor just of aphorisms, but of something in between". Sciarrino: Sei Quartetti Brevi; Quartetti Nos 7 and 8 – review 2013-03-14T21:30:02Z In an HBO film, the 1983 Between Friends, as a divorcée coping with loneliness, she mulls an aphorism: "Nothing lasts, do you notice that?" Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79: Actress Defined Modern Fame 2011-04-14T08:35:00Z Don, who has an aphorism for every occasion, trots out of one his favorites in the penultimate scene: “We do not turn our children into villains.” Review: Opinions Collide in the Explosive Comedy ‘Eureka Day’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Nonsensical aphorisms about people of different colors point to the reductive nature of racial stereotypes but also reveal how embedded they are. William Pope.L returns to L.A. with twin gallery shows focused on race 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z In some ways, it overlaps with, let’s say, Magritte, who as a painter was economically and art-historically valued and got appropriated by advertising and the graphic arts, since his ideas were often also enigmatic aphorisms. First Encounters with the Art and Presence of Saul Steinberg 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Hardwick’s “Sleepless Nights,” whose narrator bore more than a passing resemblance to the author, mapped the contours of her life by putting memories, aphorisms and observations on shuffle. Books of The Times: Jenny Offill’s ‘Dept. of Speculation’ 2014-01-29T20:35:18Z Discussions on the topic often fade into unhelpful aphorisms like “to each her own” or “live and let live.” Is Good Taste Teachable? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Dressed in black, with gloves to match, and sporting a tight top with a V or W neckline, she scowls at the world and spits emasculating aphorisms in its face. Dead Sex Kittens: Farewell to Three Icons of Movie Eroticism 2011-02-10T08:10:00Z But at least, as part of the elite who can undergo such immersive nature tourism, he has found out a few things on our behalf, which he expresses in punchy aphorisms. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z “Vox Lux” illustrates that snarky aphorism that celebrities remain, throughout their lives, the emotional age at which they became famous. “Vox Lux,” Reviewed: A Tale of Star Power That Misuses Natalie Portman’s Star Power 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z You’re touring with your manager, and you have an aphorisms deck called Finance. Robert Fripp Lightens Up 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z In this sort of aphorism, assertion is all: in place of argument or proof, the implacable “is.” The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Greene liked to quote Chekhov’s aphorism that a writer is “not a confectioner, not a cosmetician, not an entertainer.” When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z When I got home, I put her aphorisms on my iPod so I could talk dirty to myself as I went running. How I cured my “sexual dysfunction” without a pill 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z “The desert is God’s canvas,” José is fond of saying, but the sounds of blowing wind, barely audible throughout most of the play, drive home the incompleteness of this aphorism. Art, life and disappointment in the deserts of 1950s Mexico 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z He speaks in aphorisms, such as "a photograph is a mirror that remembers." 'Song of the Shank' gives poetic voice to a unique American musician 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Austen's opening aphorism – "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young man in possession of a fortune must be in need of a wife" – is delivered as a cheeky aside by Jennifer Ehle's Elizabeth. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z When I was writing and illustrating the original Vegetariana, the literary quotations, aphorisms, and food folklore came first. Writer Nava Atlas reflects on the (vegan) return of her cult-classic "Vegetariana" cookbook 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z In his books, other writings and on-air commentary, often as a radio and television talk show guest, he became a font of aphorisms embraced by clergy of all denominations. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, Reassuring Best-Selling Author, Dies at 88 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Perry is also keen to debunk the rarefied world of contemporary art, doing so with sleight-of-hand casual charm that folds art history and knowledge into aphorisms and insights. Grayson Perry Prepares His American Introduction 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z His long poems, however, aren’t quite as successful as his aphorisms. Books of The Times: Poems of Pain, the Raw and the Remembered 2011-02-09T23:57:30Z As the Brazilian filmmaker João Moreira Salles pointed out in his recent documentary “In the Intense Now,” those militant Parisian slogans sound like nothing so much as advertising catchphrases, less Marxist aphorisms than capitalist koans. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z A collection of the author’s sayings and aphorisms, which includes such gems as, “It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.” New & Noteworthy 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Though the character was supposed to be Mulberry Street Italian, Sidney is pure Garment District ambition and aggression; Curtis' spitting or purring of Odets' aphorisms sounds like Damon Runyan translated into Yiddish and back again. Remembering Tony Curtis: The Best of Everything 2010-09-30T22:15:00Z There’s a reason she’s lasted so long — she embodies the aphorism “Be the change you want to see in the world.” In ‘Superman & Lois,’ the Heroes Face a New Menace: Teenagers 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Where does his love of aphorisms come from, he asks himself? Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z Pairing the brand’s simple silhouettes with the building’s signature gridded ceiling and warmly subdued color palette, the show brought to life one of Mies’s architect’s favorite aphorisms: Less is more. The Row Takes NYFW To New Heights At The Seagram Building 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z He’s adept at aphorism, brainy humor and dreamlike sequences. Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.,’ Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘F’ and More 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In case the implications of the lesson weren’t clear, he ends with George Santayana’s well-worn aphorism about those who don’t study the past being doomed to repeat it. Review: ‘Watergate’ Shocks Anew With Its True Tale of Political Scandal 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Ra’s aphorisms and poetry — which he called “equations” — were as much a part of his art as the music, and he came to rely on the stately vocalist June Tyson to carry his messages. Earth Couldn’t Contain Sun Ra’s Ideas. His Arkestra Is Still Exploring Them. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The draft jitters with desperation, as if Fitzgerald were trying to craft, sentence by sentence and aphorism by aphorism, a hit. Amazon Tries to Complete F. Scott Fitzgerald's Unfinished Novel 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s a point he makes explicit by peppering the book with Zen aphorisms: “Cicadas burst forth,” reads one, “and I run from the sound. / Seventeen years they waited — / and so I wait, too.” John Porcellino's 'The Hospital Suite' peels back the layers of a life 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Few novels more exactingly summon Nietzsche’s harrowing aphorism: “Terrible experiences give one cause to speculate whether the one who experiences them may not be something terrible.” A Gifted Writer Returns With a Supremely Harrowing Novel 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z And when Kif holds him still and tries to gather facts, Heidl instead launches into wandering lectures on philosophy and humanity, quoting aphorisms and advising Kif on how to live his life. A Novel Based on the True Story of a Con Man and His Ghostwriter 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Magicians know never to perform the same trick twice, an aphorism that might have saved Curtis Sittenfeld from attempting a second roman à clef about a famous American first lady. In ‘Rodham,’ Curtis Sittenfeld Reimagines Hillary’s Life 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z He unleashes aphorisms like a Texas Oscar Wilde. The Out of Towner: Where Lone Stars Don?t Feel So Alone 2011-06-23T22:25:49Z "True Legend," written by Christine To, maneuvers cardboard characters through two stories built almost entirely from aphorisms, scheming and pledges of revenge. 'True Legend': Martial-arts tale staggers after rousing fight scene 2011-06-02T20:14:08Z I like the idea of the aphorism as an expression of desire rather than a small machine for defining things, abstract or concrete. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z And The Girls on Film project does prove that made-up aphorism right. A male-focused film industry is making women act up 2011-02-11T14:39:50Z Democritus's aphorism introduced the vastly influential principle of the primary and secondary qualities. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z The play is rife with Williams’ flamboyant aphorisms, but the other characters all sound as if they were jobbed in from a daytime soap opera. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z I don’t know if anyone ever told me, “Those who can’t write, edit,” or if I made that up on my own, but that little aphorism haunted me. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z He has a fondness for aphorisms – “We’re born naked, everything else is drag” – and when he talks about “culture”, he means the Kardashians. RuPaul: ‘Drag is a big f-you to male-dominated culture’ 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Socrates's famous aphorism "the unexamined life is not worth living" was, by the time of his trial, clearly beginning to jar. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z By day, Andrew Cuomo would calm and console the nation at his news briefings through the wonders of PowerPoint and homespun aphorism. Perspective | Chris Cuomo’s ratings soared when he interviewed his brother last spring. Now that’s off-limits. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z When Loki isn’t pulverizing midtown Manhattan, he’s preening like a Ziegfeld showgirl and disgorging contemptuous aphorisms in the manner of an Oscar Wilde dandy with Tourette’s. Marvel's The Avengers: A Superhero Roundup That's Almost Super 2012-04-25T12:25:56Z Mrs. Lessing’s special genius lies in the particular observation, and a firkinful of scorching aphorisms could be culled from nearly every page. Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Or that Radclyffe Hall danced cheek-to-cheek with her lovers at the Hambone club in Ham Yard, beneath a sign that bore the Oscar Wilde aphorism "work is the curse of the drinking classes". Nights Out by Judith R Walkowitz - review 2012-05-18T08:00:04Z Ditto aphorisms like: “Have you noticed — romantics are like fat people? You don’t meet any old ones?” Review: Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright, Precious Days’ 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z A Monsiváis aphorism sums up the passion of belonging to this urban labyrinth: “The worst nightmare is the one that excludes us.” Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Here, women respond to crises not with hysteria, or stoicism, or geysers of airbrushed aphorisms. With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses 2011-03-05T00:07:26Z Artful combinations of lists, stream-of-consciousness observations, poems and aphorisms, the pages reveal an artist playing with the ambiguities and limits of language, in particular the conventions of letter writing. A movable feast of words in Ray Johnson books 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z It is difficult to know whom to blame, author or translator, for the manic descriptions, desperate reflections and mangled aphorisms. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Walk into any flea market and you’ll find crafts stitched with aphorisms like “Home sweet home” and “Home is where the heart is.” Why Sofas? These Books Explain the Joys and Mysteries of the Home 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z A book devoted to wise old sayings and aphorisms sounds lecturey, but fear not! Holiday Gift Books for Children 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z It was George Orwell who once remarked that “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” an aphorism with its own particular relevance where architecture is concerned. Finding Mexico City, and Luis Barragán, Again 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z His collection of business aphorisms, or Rules of the Road, began with this one: "Steer clear of the press. No interviews, no speeches, no panels. ... Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit." Major LACMA art donation will add dimension to museum's collections 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The aphorisms are probably the most useful part of the book. Robert Fripp Lightens Up 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z That aphorism, delivered so indelibly by Hanks as the cantankerous manager Jimmy Dugan, is only one of many reasons the director Penny Marshall’s poignant comedy-drama about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League endures. With Baseball Benched, These Movies Make Good Relievers 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z He quotes the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s aphorism that “the limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Review | Can’t name that feeling? Try consulting ‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’ 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z When Vuong was a boy, his mother and grandmother taught him their field songs and aphorisms. How a Poet Named Ocean Means to Fix the English Language 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z As Barthes remarks of La Rochefoucauld’s somewhat glib and static phrases, the subjects of the aphorism appear to be solid and stable, to exist eternally. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z In many paintings, the margins are given over to gnomic aphorisms. Paul Laffoley, Painter Inspired by Time Travel and Aliens, Dies at 80 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z He’s also the utterer of one of the most repeated aphorisms about our technological present: “The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed.” Books of The Times: William Gibson?s ?Distrust That Particular Flavor? - Review 2012-01-01T20:27:07Z Moments later Mr. Abreu imparted one of the aphorisms that are often repeated: “The most holy of human rights is the right to art.” Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z “As the jokes and bon mots and aphorisms fly past, the book is anchored in soliloquies that wear their intent and erudition lightly.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z But it’s at its best when it demonstrates history repeating — an oft-cited aphorism those who study history may not completely agree with. "Drunk History" may be the most necessary show on TV now 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Invariably wearing black, Victor was always ready with an aphorism. Victor Arwas obituary 2010-03-16T18:31:00Z After all, “A Certain World” alone takes up nearly half of Volume VI, and is a grab-bag of humor, aphorism and moral reflection. ‘The Complete Works of Auden’ showcases writings beyond the poetry 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The master spouts fortune cookie aphorisms like, "You see only with your eyes, so you're easy to fool" and "Best fights are the ones we avoid." Does the world need another "Karate Kid"? 2010-06-11T00:20:00Z Ms. Cusk strews aphorisms as she moves along. Review: Rachel Cusk’s ‘Transit’ Offers Transcendent Reflections 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Furthermore, for us former-nerds-turned-creative-class-parents, there is no lack of sage aphorisms about bullying with which you can enlighten your children. Mommy has anger issues! My daughters are pre-adolescent, I’m pre-menopausal 2014-05-10T23:00:00Z Pick it up, look anywhere and there's something as pleasing as you'll find in any collection of aphorisms. Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos| Book review 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z The garden’s rehabilitation may well reflect the aphorism that perfect is the enemy of good. The joy — and challenges — of restoring a neoclassical horticultural ruin 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z He lavished his correspondents with parody and aphorism, as well as assessments of his poetic peers. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The book is a collection of aphorisms and slogans. Sustainable design is wearing thin 2011-02-03T16:56:09Z Leaving no merchandising opportunity unturned, he also offers personalized, handwritten, metal-leafed versions of his aphorisms. Robert Fripp Lightens Up 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Her aphorism centered the humble chicken, at its most simply prepared, as a worthy and all too possible pursuit. Remembering Barbara Kafka, whose roast chicken changed everything 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z And in the last decade, he’s become something of a motivational guru, publishing two self-help books and amassing 2 million followers on Twitter, who retweet the frequent aphorisms from @UncleRush. The Enlightenment Of Russell Simmons 2012-10-18T14:42:42Z Li-yan’s mother repeats this simple aphorism as she interprets her children’s dreams over a breakfast of thin broth in their bamboo house on a remote Chinese mountain. Lisa See’s new novel draws readers along a fantastic tea-infused trail 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z More vexing still: In pouring his memoir into the mold of an advice book, Bharara winds up speaking in aphorisms and bromides. Preet Bharara’s Lessons on Crime and Punishment 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Her sentences, if not quite sensuous, were beguiling, full and subtle, with a fine eye for aphorism. The New Sensibility of Susan Sontag & Tom Wolfe: The “dark lady” and the man in white were an unlikely pair, but both were looking to liberate American culture 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z In songs like those, Massive Attack didn’t need facts, figures or aphorisms to conjure human vulnerability and a necessary spirit of resistance. Music Review: Massive Attack at Terminal 5 2010-05-13T20:27:00Z "Everything is copy" is the aphorism generally employed by professional writers attempting, less successfully than its principal advocate, the great Nora Ephron, to transform painful experiences into something with artistic merit. Sharon Olds's silence is golden in an era of endless media exposure 2013-01-20T00:06:48Z Compressed quotes can't give the full flavour of Parks's raconteurish charm; his fondness for looping tangents, pungent opinions, historical trivia, useful quotes, deadpan puns, colourful aphorisms and mischievous asides. Van Dyke Parks: 'I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery' 2013-05-09T17:30:01Z Hence one of the most striking aphorisms in “Brief as Photos”: “What we mourn for the dead is the loss of their hopes.” When John Berger Looked at Death 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Of the many aphorisms attributed to him, one of my favorites is this: “Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.” “My synagogue was a jail cell”: My miracle happened behind bars 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Dogmatic aphorisms don't, however, add up to an argument; nor can one extrapolate universal laws from limited examples. Race 2013-05-30T14:34:03Z And on occasion, Reiss’s perspective becomes so narrow it brings to mind that old aphorism “To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” ‘Wild Nights’ Offers a History of Sleep (and Sleeplessness) 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Other statements sound like slightly more off-kilter versions of the famous aphorisms of Yogi Berra. Baseball Cards for the Photography Set 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The Prada backstage aphorisms are generally treated as manna from heaven by the ravening style hordes, and Mr. Zambernardi was doing his game best to channel her spirit: “She became obsessed.” At Prada, Reinventing the Power Suit 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z You can read it for the addled aphorisms. A Late-Night Radio Drama, With Hints of the Internet to Come 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Vaccines are the victims of their own success, the aphorism goes. Measles outbreak! Vaccine trutherism now officially a public health crisis 2014-03-20T14:14:00Z Perhaps Doll's favourite aphorism represents a more reasonable proximal goal to define success in the war on cancer. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z The message goes beyond easy aphorisms such as “be kind to your body” or “treasure real friendships”. From sponsors to socialism: the return of Instagram star Essena O'Neill 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z I am not quite sure they are the same as saws, adages, and proverbs—the aphorism is an oblique sort of statement. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Moore's trademark aphorisms and quirky observations meld unforgettably in a sweeping portrait of contemporary America. Expert view: Critics greet Lacuna's win with respectful disappointment 2010-06-09T19:45:00Z “In perception, redemption,” Adnan declares in this assemblage of mystical, metaphysical ideas and aphorisms, often in conversation with the dead. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z An unpublished collection of aphorisms by the author, Bites from the Apple, also discovered by Mourant, will be included in a later volume of non-fiction. Lost Katherine Mansfield short story unearthed 2012-07-23T14:16:38Z For those still in search of their identity, a well-worn aphorism — we travel not only to discover distant places, but to encounter ourselves — retains its poignancy. A Gay Pilot Reflects on What Travel Means to Queer Folks 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z And her austere demeanor — every time Ted refers to her colloquially as “Doc,” she corrects him with “Doctor” — offers a sharp contrast with the show’s usual parade of jokes and genial aphorisms. Sarah Niles Needed ‘Ted Lasso,’ Too 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The title, "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," refers to the fortune-cookie aphorisms that fake spiritualists and mind readers use to trap the gullible. 'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger': Woody Allen's new concoction of interesting characters 2010-10-07T19:33:00Z The aphorism is defined by its monadic quality, its obtuse resistance to being teased or elaborated. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Count on Aimee Mann for the aphorism that quietly twists the knife in the middle of a seemingly sympathetic ballad. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The remainder of the novel unfolds as a series of motivational aphorisms that grind away on archery as a metaphor for a life well lived. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z I am getting the urge for more ink but I think one crass aphorism tattooed up the inside of your arm is enough! Andrew Weatherall: 'Never take the Guardian on to a building site' 2013-02-06T16:50:00Z George Balanchine’s aphorism “Ballet is woman” never had the ring of a feminist statement. Two Critics Reflect on Ballet’s #MeToo Moment 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction” is a Picabia aphorism consistent with another one: “The only movement is perpetual movement.” Francis Picabia, the Playboy Prankster of Moderism 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z At best, it gathers snippets of disappointment, its numbers less songs than sets of strung-together aphorisms, verging on trite. Music Review | 'Making It': Soundtrack of Their End: Romance Curdles Onstage 2010-02-19T06:20:00Z Their fragmented aphorisms serve as bread crumbs in a forest of forms. A Book’s Unlikely Pairing: Fernando Pessoa and Plane Crashes 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The journalist in me would have laughed at a few of the aphorisms — “The only courage you need in your life is the courage to live your dreams” was a recurring one. My weekend with Oprah Winfrey and trying to find the life I want The writers’ conference depicted in “Country Porch Lights” is a cesspool of snobbery and sycophancy, gilded with “self-indulgent aphorisms and psycho-babble.” ‘The Richard Peabody Reader’ 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z An aphorism is frequently attributed to him: “God is dead but my hair is perfect.” A Polarizing French Philosopher Chooses War Zones Over Salons 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Among the text fragments is Heraclitus’s famous aphorism regarding the impossibility of stepping into the same river twice. Review: Ekmeles Performs Chamber Works Written for Voices and Brass Instruments 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The sentiment is rooted in a pervasive aphorism, a consolation—it gets better; give it time—that endures in part because it bears real weight. The Singularity of Adele’s Soul 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The distances and times are abbreviated, and so is the old aphorism: Those who fail to learn from history are doomed — period. Review | Jim Shepard’s ‘Phase Six’ makes covid look like a dress rehearsal 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z The origins of the aphorism are both elevated and abject, as fits a literary form of sublime ambition that is at present in a kind of disgrace. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z He brimmed with optimism and restated a host of aphorisms for an active and fit life. Jack LaLanne, Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96 2011-01-24T03:34:59Z From a puckish processional by Satie, Ms. Cahill brought a gentle intensity to enigmatic aphorisms by Scriabin and subtly ostentatious pieces by Dane Rudhyar. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Julia Holter at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-03-08T00:17:18Z It’s a gleaming empire of fascist enthusiasm and panicked optimism goosed by the gleeful chanting of New Age aphorisms and impossible sales goals. Review | Mateo Askaripour’s ‘Black Buck’ is an irresistible comic novel about the tenacity of racism in corporate America 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z “My anti-holiday album includes a hymnal with aphorisms describing what my day is like: ‘Let no man visit his family who does not wish it so.’ On Dec. 25, Traditions of a Different Sort 2011-12-23T22:10:27Z Splashed across their image is this aphorism: “I believe we have an opportunity to make some extremely poor choices.” What Do the Sex Lives of ‘Three Women’ Tell Us About Female Desire? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Dylan instantly became a fountainhead of aphorisms and allusions himself, a writer other writers would build upon until, generations later, his wild innovations were just part of an American heritage. Bob Dylan: America’s Great One-Man Songbook 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z You remember Oscar Wilde’s aphorism from “Lady Windermere’s Fan”: The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Catch a Rising Star at the Auction House 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Coover sustains that magical act of literary ventriloquism for 300 pages, preserving Twain’s raggedly, tall-tale patter spiced with the same accidental aphorisms. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are back — and all growed up 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z The juxtaposition of wide-eyed villagers and labored aphorisms with shopping malls and casual sex may accurately reflect Mr. Li’s book, but on screen it feels absurdly outdated. | 'Mao?s Last Dancer': Bruce Beresford on Li Cunxin?s Immersion in America 2010-08-19T23:20:00Z And it arrives one corny aphorism at a time. ‘Bad Seeds’ Review: A Scam Artist Teaches From the School of Life 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Each half of the work features text in sans-serif block capitals, in the manner of Barbara Kruger, but instead of spooky aphorisms about power, we get cheese-ball romantic comedy dialogue superimposed on pink fireworks: Making Way for the Tried and True at Cut by Wolfgang Puck 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Fellowes' remarks echo those of the French writer Henry de Montherlant, remembered for his aphorism "Happiness writes in white ink on a white page". Can on-screen bliss keep the audience happy too? 2013-01-25T14:30:02Z Even Maggie Smith’s marvelously entertaining, extra-dry performance as Violet lost some of its radiance over the seasons, as the aphorisms she was given to deliver became more labored. Review: For the Crawleys and ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Beginning of the End 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z After all, human beings – I forget who said this – will do almost anything to avoid thinking; and aphorisms, more than any branch of literature, force us to do just that. The Lost Art of Losing by Gregory Norminton – review 2012-07-10T12:12:01Z In keeping with her reputation for pointed aphorism, she exclaimed, “I’m fine. I have no complaints, except for the world.” After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Eternal disappointment, or Weltschmerz, if you want to impress friends at a German cocktail party, is probably one of Wilde's lesser-known aphorisms. "The Importance of Being 'Jersey Shore'" 2011-04-26T01:01:00Z The modern aphorism may be modelled on the classical, but it adds to the form a degree of self-consciousness about its own power, motion, drive. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z He’s interesting about aphorisms and our need to attach them, usually erroneously, to famous people. Review: ‘Nicotine,’ the Stuff of Burning Desire 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The aphorism came up a lot last week following publication by the Guardian, the and Der Spiegel of extensive reports based on the stash of classified US military reports published on the WikiLeaks website. John Naughton on WikiLeaks 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z They force us, in other words, to remember Ronald Reagan’s aphorism: trust, but verify. Bad science gets busted 2012-09-24T16:32:00Z Perhaps the rest of us had caught up with him by the time Martin Luther King made famous the aphorism: "The old law of 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind." I spit on your grave, but that's about it 2011-01-24T13:50:06Z He relayed an aphorism that he in turn learned from Thurop van Orman, his old boss on “The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack”: “It’s a fun factory!” How ‘Adventure Time’ Became a Talent Factory for a Generation of Animators 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Ben E King – The Hermit of Misty Mountain As much about aphorism and metaphor as wild-eyed fantasy but still, there are flying carpets a-plenty. Readers recommend: songs with special guests 2010-10-14T23:01:00Z This book proves the aphorism that a little knowledge is dangerous. Are We Overreacting on Climate Change? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z His famous style — those stinging aphorisms — became his way to condense his thoughts during moments of reprieve between attacks of incapacitating headaches and eye pain. A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Among the sloganeering works is “What Doesn’t Kill You,” which spells out the opening of an oft-quoted Nietzsche aphorism that continues, “makes you stronger.” Review | In the galleries: The grid is the primary motif but subject to subtle change 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z However off-the-wall, these aphorisms and anecdotes are more comprehensible than a dance by Ms. Hay. Review: Deborah Hay’s ‘Match-Play’ Fuses Dance and Theater 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The opera consists of these poignant aphorisms, made anonymous by the omission of sources. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z The aphorism, then, is singular and separated—or at least separable, when discovered in the midst of other aphorisms, or embedded in some more discursive text. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z And he could always be counted on for a spur-of-the-moment aphorism, putdown or sharply worded critique of American foreign policy. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Dazzling and unsettling the residents with his arbitrary rules and pronouncements about how the world works, Abraham speaks in portentous aphorisms and exhibits a growing paranoia. She Got Away With Murder, but Now the Past Is at Her Doorstep 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The aphorism is as useful to you as it is to them. Perspective | Miss Manners: Would-be guests won’t stop angling for invitations 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Perhaps the aphorism is made of equal parts wit and judgment, its success depending on its making a sufficiently daring detour in thought, while at the same time maintaining formal integrity, poise, and precision. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Ben’s cynical quip echoes the real life aphorism of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was previously Mr. Obama’s chief of staff: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” 'Veep' Recap: Listen, You Are Beyoncé 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z So a shirt with the wall’s Oscar Wilde aphorisms would be controlled by narrow pants, which might, in a different outfit, have a dense print. Fashion Review: Comme des Gar?ons and Dries Van Noten Offer a Hint of Victoriana 2012-01-20T18:50:37Z She knows how to spin macho aphorisms in the way of westerns, making them feel both overheated and satisfying. Schemes of Mules and Men Propel ‘The Midnight Cool’ 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z They deliver their cautionary testimonies with the force of a start-up pitch, employing crisp aphorisms and pithy analogies. ‘The Social Dilemma’ Review: Unplug and Run 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z We soon learn that the aphorism is Mr. Friedman’s favorite form. Review: ‘Phalaris’s Bull,’ or How a Man Comes to Terms With Life 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Anderson is most enchanting aphorism by aphorism, even if there's little to tie all the one-liners together. Laurie Anderson's 'Dirtday!' digressed, but the audience dug it 2012-10-21T20:12:04Z That such an aphorism is easily applied to any number of “Before Sunrise”-style movies of people reminiscing and litigating what once was sets Mari Walker’s film at a disadvantage. ‘See You Then’ Review: The More Things Stay the Same 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Yes, there are ready-made aphorisms everywhere: “Champions adjust,” “Pressure is a privilege” and the widely applicable “Every decision should be for a tactical advantage, period.” Billie Jean King: The First Female Athlete-Activist 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Mrs. Palmer and her husband, Alfred, raised two daughters amid Mr. Parr’s painted aphorisms, reminding them to “seize the moments as they fly” and “know to live and learn to die.” The David Parr House’s Hidden Gem in Cambridge, England 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Noting that Jason Segel had been cast as Wallace in Ponsoldt’s film, I wondered how he would handle the high-flown philosophical and literary aphorisms that Wallace dispenses to Lipsky in the course of the visit. David Foster Wallace Isn’t Just Like Us! 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z As Bloom’s day unfolds, the density of Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness prose — staccato bursts of thought brimming with historical references, aphorisms and wordplay — grows in Mr. Fitzgerald’s delivery. Theater Review: ‘Gibraltar,’ Adapted From ‘Ulysses,’ Plays at Irish Rep 2013-06-25T22:02:32Z Or, to quote one of the onscreen aphorisms employed in each episode, “When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.” Can an ambitious black woman "have it all"? "Being Mary Jane" finds the answer in the end 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z So he has gone for deliberate disorder: Antifragile jumps around from aphorism to anecdote to technical analysis, interspersed with a certain amount of hectoring encouragement to the reader to keep up. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z The bookshop shelves may groan with books which promise to sum up various facets of the world in statements containing no more than 140 characters, but the tweet is not the aphorism. The Lost Art of Losing by Gregory Norminton – review 2012-07-10T12:12:01Z Even before she died Tuesday, you would stumble across her bright-polished aphorisms about depression and mental health and recovery, shared over and over again on Facebook and Twitter. Perspective | Elizabeth Wurtzel was right all along 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z According to quoteinvestigator.com, the earliest antecedent of the aphorism, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture," appeared in the New Republic in 1918. Keith Hennessy brings 'Dance About the Economy' to Seattle 2012-09-20T20:49:09Z While researching “Tendencies,” she jotted down notes for “Outer Order, Inner Calm,” published this week, a collection of more than 120 random tips and aphorisms, though mainly it’s about clutter. Gretchen Rubin actually appears to have it all. But is that the kind of happiness guru we want? 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z That's why so many are derived from common expressions or aphorisms. The right and wrong ways to name a movie 2011-02-11T14:50:00Z Many other Gordimer aphorisms were making the rounds on social media, including “Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction” and “writing is making sense of life.” Nadine Gordimer is remembered -- and lives on in social media 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Over and over, characters dispense perfectly crafted aphorisms to ensure you never forget precisely what the show is about. Review: Happyish Suffers from First-World Problems 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The comparison is “in line with her abilities and ambitions,” the article stated, given “her way with an inspirational aphorism.” Meet Cleo Wade. She wants you to know that she loves you. 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The observation is reminiscent of one of Tim O’Brien’s saddest aphorisms about combat from “The Things They Carried”: “In the end, really, there’s nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe ‘Oh.’” Review: In ‘Pumpkinflowers,’ a New Style of Middle East Combat 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Customers repeated these aphorisms warmly in an attempt to offer me some consolation or encouragement. What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Ms. Longshore recently published a book, “You Don’t Look Fat, You Look Crazy,” a combination of self-help and memoir dense with her bawdy illustrations, rejoinders and briny aphorisms. Ashley Longshore Is Fashion’s Latest Art Darling 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z He talks about quantum mechanics, the poetry of Rimbaud, the aphorisms of Heraclitus, among other things, as being important for the cycle. A Guide to James Dillon's music 2013-02-04T15:50:00Z He was boiled down to his aphorisms: “By any means necessary.” Fifty years after his death, Malcolm X speaks to the current moment 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Here, as throughout, Sofer’s characters deliver such preternaturally complete and impassioned speeches, ones so full of aphorisms, that it would be tempting to take a line from any one as a thesis for the book. He Tried to Change the System, Then Became It 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Plenty of his aphorisms were quoted throughout the service: “It’s perfectly O.K. to repeat a phrase, just don’t say the same thing,” Larry Blumenfeld, a jazz critic, remembered Mr. Coleman saying. Remembering What Made Ornette Coleman a Jazz Visionary 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z To use a Sherlock Holmes aphorism, this was the case of the dog that did not bark. Samuel G. Freedman: A Catholic School Meets a Challenge 2010-12-18T01:45:26Z Thirty, according to an aphorism from a youth-oriented decade even older than MTV, was the age beyond which someone was not to be trusted. MTV at 30: Much more than music 2011-08-03T17:10:06Z Their strong performances aren’t matched by the script, which too often sounds like a collection of aphorisms rather than the gritty language that seems more likely for such fascinating figures. Review: ‘Bessie,’ on HBO, Stars Queen Latifah as Blues Singer 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The point is that, while this collection of aphorisms by the novelist Gregory Norminton is indeed a little book, it is not a little book of calm. The Lost Art of Losing by Gregory Norminton – review 2012-07-10T12:12:01Z There were, similarly, aphorisms, such as “Political optimists are always walking around with a scowl, pessimists with a smile, because optimists are always disappointed and pessimists are always relieved.” What Israel Meant to Amos Oz 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Late in life, he joined the Quakers and wrote almost exclusively for their publications, once self-publishing a list of odd aphorisms. A Century Later, a Novel by an Enigma of the Harlem Renaissance Is Still Relevant 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z His wife buoys herself by recalling the vacuous aphorisms of her Grandma Win. Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Heart Goes Last’: A satire of unbridled capitalism 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Women are mostly accessories, and the men grunt and mumble racing jargon and aphorism. Television: HBO?s ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman 2012-01-25T15:29:12Z That old aphorism, paraphrased for the third-season finale of Weeds, cuts to the core of American pop culture’s complicated relationship to the almighty job. Office lol-itics: the evolution of the workplace sitcom 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z This is a common enough aphorism, but it’s usually delivered with a more vulgar synonym. How Nancy Pelosi turned the condescending ‘feisty grandma’ meme into a political weapon 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z “Bring it in, Champ!” he says, with a predictable aphorism about apples falling from trees. ‘… What the End Will Be’ Review: Learning to Let Go 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z There are letters, calls to action, song lyrics, aphorisms, annotations, unearthed journal entries, a theory of minstrelsy. Margo Jefferson’s New Memoir Experiments With the Form in Startling Ways 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z In recent years, Kupferberg's health faltered and his activity with the band declined, yet he continued to experiment with words, posting his punning aphorisms – he dubbed them "perverbs" – online. Tuli Kupferberg obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z Yet the comparative banality of Mirvis’s post-religious life reminds me of another Jewish aphorism: “If you are going to eat pork,” as the Yiddish proverb goes, “let the juices run down your beard.” Losing Her Religion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z He often relays his insight with indelible aphorism. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z William was outstandingly precise and waspish as Vaughan Cunningham, a pacifist literary gadfly with a nasal intonation and a fund of semi-louche aphorisms. David William obituary 2010-08-23T17:41:00Z It’s cited out of context all the time as a pearl of genuine wisdom, but in the playing it’s traditionally rendered as just one of the many aphorisms spouted by an old gasbag. Critic?s Notebook: On the Stage, Old Words Are Reborn 2010-12-31T22:25:35Z See it if you like Ultrasuede, Studio 54 nostalgia and people who speak in aphorisms. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z It is related to the essay, though the essay may also contain aphorisms. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Now in her late seventies, she is a charismatic woman who speaks in a mixture of poetic flights and pungent aphorisms. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps Johnson could find a better aphorism for his plight in the Bible. Column: The shutdown looms, and Speaker Mike Johnson has nothing 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z In my Hudson Valley, N.Y., garden, this year has invoked many aphorisms, chief among them, “It never rains but it pours.” Gardening isn't always sunshine and roses 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s. Suffering in the shadows: The humanitarian calamities that aren’t on the world’s agenda 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Those tears were my first acquaintance with the harsh truth of a baseball aphorism: The ball will always find you. 2024’s Field of Nightmares | Ross Douthat 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Kissinger waved off any legal concerns with a favorite aphorism: "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer." Henry Kissinger at 100: A centenarian with a remarkable life — and still a war criminal 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Lepore has ways of crystallizing that truth in both specific examples and fresh aphorisms. From Barbie to MAGA, Jill Lepore's essays bring the past into the harrowing present 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z They cite one of Biden’s favorite political aphorisms: “Don’t judge me against the Almighty, judge me against the alternative.” Biden’s diverse coalition of support risks fraying in 2024 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z “You’d have to be able to stay on top of it,” he told The Times in 1983, invoking an earthy aphorism from his dairy days. Stew Leonard Sr. Dies at 93; Founded ‘Disneyland of Dairy Stores’ 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Garcia has given her home a welcoming feel, filling it with plants and decorating the walls with aphorisms like “Bless this home and all who enter.” California needs more homes. So why are these sitting vacant? 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Spouting his own aphorism, at one point Sonny reminds his colleagues that “you’re remembered for the rules you break.” Review | ‘Air’ shoots and scores, with story, character, catharsis and depth 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The series debuted in August 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Lasso’s unflagging optimism, goofy aphorisms and inexorable hope and compassion proved to be the perfect tonic for the time. Has 'Ted Lasso' boosted soccer's popularity in the U.S.? We asked the experts 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z When he spoke publicly, it was often in general aphorisms, particularly when asked about politically sensitive issues such as trade policies and union labor. Shoichiro Toyoda, who led Toyota’s surge into U.S. market, dies at 97 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. Give our children the most important skill: Reading 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z His approach is more in line with Mark Twain's reputed aphorism, "History may not repeat itself. But it rhymes." How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z If asked the King question, most of us, I suspect, would apply the old Miles’s Law aphorism: “Where you stand depends on where you sit.” Opinion | Journalism and government are struggling. Here’s why I’m optimistic. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z People are even warned with a color-coded aphorism about how to behave during a bear encounter: “If it’s black, fight back; if it’s brown, lie down; if it’s white, say good night.” What Should You Do When the Bear Is Cinnamon? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z If Benjamin Franklin were alive today, he might update his famous aphorism: The only certainties in life are death, taxes — and partisanship. Opinion | The GOP wants to cut funding to the IRS. We can’t let that happen. 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Biden worked to draw out Xi, quoting William Butler Yeats or offering an aphorism he said came from his father: “The only thing worse than war is unintended war.” As Biden and Xi meet, can their old connection avert a clash? 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z “The old aphorism that ‘when it rains, it pours’ is literally true in this context. Diseases Explode after Extreme Flooding and Other Climate Disasters 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z When a Silicon Valley investor later responded by citing the aphorism that “no good deed goes unpunished,” Musk tweeted in reply: “Even so, we should still do good deeds.” Musk suggests openness to continue funding Starlink access in Ukraine 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z The aphorisms flew freely, often emphasizing perseverance: “The only person who fails in life is the person who doesn’t dare live it” and “Life is common bread. Hoard it and you lose it.” Review | Elsie who? At one time, millions read Elsie Robinson’s columns. 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she was instructed by her parents to play it safe through aphorisms like, “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” Review | In Celeste Ng’s ‘Our Missing Hearts,’ a boy fights for freedom 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The popular aphorism that “Russia is a country with an unpredictable past” understandably works its way into all three books. Review | Putin’s centuries-long march into Ukraine 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The aphorism declaring us these sites’ product comes from the basics of online advertising: Facebook is “free” only because the platform markets users’ attention to businesses trying to sell us stuff. Opinion | Of course LinkedIn is experimenting on you 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Didion’s longtime friend and fellow author Susanna Moore distilled decades of conversation into a few of Didion’s aphorisms: “Evil is the absence of seriousness.” Hundreds gather for Joan Didion tribute Wednesday night 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z If one or two people have a successful experience using one of these aphorisms, it can quickly become the next person’s truth. One size doesn’t fit all for wedding dresses or finances 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z What exactly Jan is fighting for feels dreadfully unclear, despite vague aphorisms like “honor, justice, freedom, faith, hope” intoned over the final frames. ‘Medieval’ review: This Czech ‘Braveheart’ doesn’t know what it’s fighting for 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The Victims of Communism Museum is small because an aphorism widely but unconvincingly attributed to Stalin is right: “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic.” Opinion | D.C.’s new Victims of Communism Museum tells a vital, unfinished tale 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Pink neon tubes spell out a wall-sized aphorism: “This moment used to be the future.” At the Renwick Gallery, craft that captures our polarized times 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Throughout this slavish accumulation of her too-clever aphorisms, her sweeping historical generalities and her arch cultural observations, Neil remains wholly devoted to polishing his devotion. Review | Julian Barnes is back. But where’s the magic? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z That bitter aphorism has been part of American parlance for at least a century. Opinion | What are friends for? Climbing the income ladder, for one. 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z They memorized many of his daily aphorisms: Keep a clean restaurant. Salvador Avila, bracero turned Mexican restaurant baron, dies at 99 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Even today her poems and aphorisms are widely shared on social media. Overlooked No More: Alda Merini, a Poet of Mental Illness 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Dave Carney, a longtime Republican strategist, was even blunter about the landscape of governor’s races, invoking an old aphorism the association has embraced. In Races for Governor, Democrats See a Silver Lining 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Some fans go so far as to tattoo themselves with the show’s aphorisms. The writer of 'Dear Evan Hansen' and 'Tick, Tick ... Boom!' is living the dream 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The result is a reminder of one of Mr. Biden’s favorite aphorisms: “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.” Most Democrats Don’t Want Biden in 2024, New Poll Shows 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z My grandmother always had an aphorism on the tip of her tongue. Perspective | Feeling anxious? Can’t sleep? Sometimes doing nothing is the best. 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Like the aphorism attributed to Stalin, "one death is a tragedy, one million deaths is statistics." Teaching and grieving in a classroom where perfect math meets a broken world 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Yes, I know that’s a dated stereotype, but the bespoke elegance of the four books below — a novel, a diary, a volume of aphorisms and a collection of essays — brought it irresistibly to mind. Review | In this stellar group of European writers, two worthy of the Nobel 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z The whole manuscript is written in a pompous, defensive stance, laced with aphorisms about the wonder of free markets. Review | In Hernan Diaz’s ‘Trust,’ the rich are not like you and me 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z They point to one version of an aphorism known as Goodhart’s law: When you teach to the test, tests lose their validity. Computers ace IQ tests but still make dumb mistakes. Can different tests help? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z An old aphorism has it that “all politics is local,” but it is becoming increasingly clear that local politics is also national. Opinion | Maryland ended up with the congressional map it deserved 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z While “Goon Squad” gave readers the celebrated PowerPoint chapter, “The Candy House” offers a spy thriller conveyed in aphorisms tweeted in the second person. Review | Jennifer Egan’s ‘The Candy House’ revisits the goon squad 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z But she twice quoted a famous aphorism by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. from his 1881 book “The Common Law,” written two decades before he joined the Supreme Court. After Three Rounds, Judge Jackson Knows the Confirmation Playbook 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z As an aphorism attributed to Edmund Burke goes, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Opinion | Failure to face Putin now will only permit further atrocities and encroachment 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z With respect to philosopher George Santayana’s famous aphorism, the fact that humankind has decidedly repeated history is not that people ever forgot the past. Opinion | Putin’s bogus rationale neglects the larger part of history 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The Ukrainians, it was said, would rediscover the truth of an aphorism attributed to Stalin: "quantity has a quality of its own." Ukraine war: Kyiv prepares for Russian attack 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z “Amateurs study tactics and professionals study logistics,” Gen. McConville said, repeating the famous military aphorism. Army Chief of Staff: Following Ukraine invasion, NATO closer now than it has been for several years 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z People then thought it expressed some profound truth — a Zen-like aphorism with an Ivy League pedigree. Reflections from the Netherworld 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z On the back are 34 affiliations and aphorisms that present a cornucopia of common ground. Even arguments can’t interrupt this 55-year marriage 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z We keep trying to plaster over history’s fault lines with aphorisms and pablum, but the instability runs deep. Perspective | Unprecedented 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The arguments against the expanded child tax credit remind me of the cautionary aphorism, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” Perspective | Without the boosted child tax credit, nearly 10 million children could fall deeper into poverty 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Among the aphorisms of synthetic biology is this: Nature is the best innovator. The Gene-Synthesis Revolution 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z More than blatant aphorisms, these tangible reflections note how soon we forget we were once kids chasing a ball. Review: Bask in the feel-good glory of 'What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?' 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z I’ve prodded the thought for soft spots, because aphorisms can be cheap, but I think it’s brilliant and sad. How John, Paul, George and Ringo helped a writer survive the pandemic 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “Men make plans and God laughs,” said Casey Coulter, 40, who ranches 150 miles southeast of the Obrechts and is a font of aphorisms such as, “Poor land equals poor people.” Keeping Cattle on the Move and Carbon in the Soil 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z The airline announced its investigation after The Associated Press reported the incident in a story about the growing use of the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon,” an aphorism in conservative circles for a vulgarity targeting Biden. Southwest investigates pilot for use of anti-Biden phrase 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z But the aphorism glides over the fact that for most of human history, nature has also been opaque, requiring that humanity stumble upon its inventions entirely by chance. The Gene-Synthesis Revolution 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z He speaks with almost spiritual zeal about his personal evolution — he is a meditating, globe-trotting, vegan former police officer — but can slide into vague aphorisms on policy matters. What Kind of Mayor Might Eric Adams Be? No One Seems to Know. 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z In addition to his groundbreaking service as both the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first Black secretary of state, Powell also distinguished himself for his many aphorisms. The wisdom of Colin Powell 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z A day after his team’s 31-13 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, Ron Rivera broke out another one of his pithy aphorisms: “What you allow is what you accept.” Lack of discipline has Rivera mulling change 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Of all aphorisms, perhaps the truest is: Nobody’s perfect. Opinion | One bad call for the Giants; one giant leap toward robo-umpires 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z While its exact origin is disputed, American humorist and writer Mark Twain is frequently credited with the aphorism: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes’: Can UW (finally) stop the run against UCLA? 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Alibaba’s chief executive, Daniel Zhang, hailed his firm’s new $15.5 billion plan to help small business and underdeveloped regions, invoking the aphorism “If you teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime.” The End of a ‘Gilded Age’: China Is Bringing Business to Heel 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z An artisan of the aphorism as well as a luminous book reviewer and obituarist, he is a considerably more complicated thinker than the tweedy, bow-tied conservative persona he tends to project on TV. Review | Woke academics, Donald Trump and George Will’s ire 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Asked to recall this period, Ms. Swift recalled an old aphorism about politics: “This ain’t bean bag,” a standard response to those wounded by negative campaigning. After the 9/11 Attacks, Boston Found a Focus for Its Anger 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Some items are examples of the aphorism that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, with prices that some may consider a steal and others, well, a bit ridiculous. Another pandemic winner: Tchotchkes 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z And while the team doesn’t succeed, getting relegated from the Premier League to the second-tier Championship, Lasso’s irrepressibly positive attitude and penchant for quoting aphorisms triumphs even as the team doesn’t. How 'Ted Lasso' won over American soccer stars and contributed to UCLA's Pac-12 title 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z Over the rest of his life, the list — a mixture of proverbs, aphorisms, jokes and clever quotations — grew into a lengthy compendium known as “Rumsfeld’s Rules.” Donald H. Rumsfeld, influential but controversial Bush defense secretary, dies at 88 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z He said that “some Western politicians” wanted to suppress China and then used a Maoist-era aphorism. China, Its Military Might Expanding, Accuses NATO of Hypocrisy 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Hanson revised Winston Churchill’s famous aphorism to describe the current situation: “There’s no more appeasing the crocodile,” he said. Ex-Green Beret author sees threat from within U.S. among Antifa, Black Lives Matter 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z He was also one of the most quotable public figures of his generation, many of his pronouncements tending toward aphorism: Ramsey Clark, Attorney General and Rebel With a Cause, Dies at 93 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z The old 12-step aphorism “insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results” applies here. Opinion | More ways to reimagine safety 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z He often cited an aphorism with particular resonance for him. Allan McDonald, engineer and whistleblower in the Challenger disaster, dies at 83 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Hikers, unemployed 20- to 30-year-olds seeking purpose, and older, rich professionals turning away from their past came — and often stayed — for Beainy’s pastiche of quasi-religious utterances and aphorisms on life and how to live it. Climate change and corruption endanger an ancient valley in Lebanon 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z There is an old medical aphorism for this: when you hear hoofbeats, don't look for zebras. Coronavirus doctor's diary: Will Covid be with us forever, like flu? 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z As the aphorism goes, “to govern is to choose.” What Science Can and Cannot Do in a Time of Pandemic 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z I thought about the aphorism a lot this week, as our boasts about America’s singularly great democracy began to look like so much sanctimony. Column: When you give the devil a ride, don't be shocked when the U.S. Capitol is stormed 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z We are left with aphorisms that are more anodyne than revelatory. Review | When ‘red lines’ work, and when they fail 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The founder of the drug company for which I once worked was remembered for the aphorism “Show me a drug with no side effects, and I’ll show you a drug with no effects.” Opinion | Lockdowns needed a warning label, too 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z She employs short aphorisms as thematic frames to great effect, such as “Governance is power” and “Winning is about more than being right.” Review | How a Black Lives Matter co-creator built a movement from a hashtag 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Its one notable feature was the little notes he’d taped up everywhere — “aphorisms or psychological sayings or things to encourage himself and make himself happy or feel good,” said Julie, his sister. Opinion | Happiness Won’t Save You 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z As the aphorism goes, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Opinion | Most schools should close and stay closed through winter 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s typical of the often acerbic aphorisms that are Holzer’s hallmark. These artists point to social upheaval — and one simple solution 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Periodically, pictures abruptly stop and simple aphorisms and familiar slogans turn up printed across the screen in blunt, sans-serif type. Review: Whose news? Artist Kahlil Joseph's 'BLKNWS®’ delivers what CNN or Fox do not 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z An aphorism, an axiom, an industry story in a single line. Lose your job, lose your self? How unemployment hits men's self-esteem 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z One of the oldest and hoariest baseball aphorisms goes, “Momentum is only as good as the next day’s starting pitcher.” Dodgers’ historic 11-run first inning rewrites record books and resets the NLCS 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Her aphorisms — among them “Oh, I’d kill for a good coma right now!” and “This wine is awful. Give me another glass” — have drawn fans. Canadians Rejoice as ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Sweeps Emmy Awards 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z This wise aphorism applies to everything — politics, business, education, science, finance —everything. Opinion | What Democrats don’t understand about business 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z “Take your time,” he says, offering aphorisms about his long career. Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction: 'I consider myself a late bloomer' 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z There’s an aphorism taught in medical schools, coined at my institution: “When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras.” Perspective | He had headaches, but his condition was rare, with no clear explanation or treatment 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z And Lucas, for the most part, pulls off the platitudes and aphorisms he is asked to spout. Review: 'The Secret: Dare to Dream' should have wished for a better movie 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z “Time is money” is not just a hackneyed aphorism. For Racial Justice, Employees Need Paid Hours Off for Voting 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z What's happening now is a neat illustration of the aphorism that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Why Black Lives Matter was the perfect vehicle to harness a nation's anger toward Donald Trump 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z A wide variety of short literary forms echo through these stories: poetry, aphorism, fairytale, fable – there’s a story called “Fable” – and jokes, in shape if not content. The Dominant Animal by Kathryn Scanlan review – deeply, darkly enjoyable 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Others noted that the post didn’t mention Mr. Floyd or police brutality, containing mostly unspecific aphorisms. Adidas Voices Solidarity While Closing Its Stores 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z I find myself repeating this aphorism to my patients, colleagues and family. These methods from psychiatry can help you beat stress during the coronavirus pandemic 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z A popular military aphorism was: "stay in your lane." Celebrated to death: Memorial Day is killing us 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Little imagination is needed to see how that might become an aphorism about politics. Opinion | Political rivals test an unusual antidote to pandemic fallout: Compromise 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Biden quotes Churchill, Kierkegaard and Jesus, often passing along aphorisms from family members. With rallies banned, Joe Biden welcomes voters to another kind of show 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z But remember the aphorism, “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” Does marijuana use heighten coronavirus risk? 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Suffice it to say that the aphorism had been making the rounds among conservatives for some time. Governor nixes Wisconsin’s Tuesday primary 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Andrew, New York’s governor, holds a near daily televised briefing on the epidemic, a mixture of statistics, aphorisms and advice together with prodding and praise directed at a fellow Queens, N.Y., native, President Donald Trump. The Cuomo show, Andrew and Chris, enliven coronavirus TV 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z One of Keynes’s most famous aphorisms is his declaration that “in the long run, we are all dead.” Perspective | The $1 trillion stimulus isn’t about cash. It’s about restoring faith in the system. 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z We’re about to see how that aphorism applies in modern American politics. Column: The coronavirus crisis shows what happens when a country puts its workers last 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Within the show’s heightened reality, where people party at wine caves and students spout Oscar Wilde aphorisms to one another, it’s an alluring blend. Netflix's 'Élite' is the addictively horny teen drama you need right now 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z It’s from Mark Twain’s book “Pudd’nhead Wilson,” which is shot through with such aphorisms. Column: 'Buy when blood is in the streets,' and other maxims from bear markets past 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z But this is no mere collection of Ted Talk aphorisms. Cooking without a map 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Decades ago, I came across an aphorism that said, more or less: “Remember the respect due to youth.” Rebecca Solnit: ‘Younger feminists have shifted my understanding’ 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z The article represents an elegy to Yogi Berra’s aphorism: “Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical.” Letters: Vanessa Bryant stands tall at memorial service 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z But Truman, a master of aphorisms if not the political arts, sometimes comforted himself with a phrase that was as prescient as it was palliative: “Do your best, history will do the rest.” Truman and Coolidge go up, Jefferson and Jackson go down. How history remembers presidents 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Among other things, it is a testimonial to Balzac’s famous aphorism, “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” Review: Sam Wasson takes a deep dive into 'Chinatown' 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The storytelling is a bit too economical, and the vague aphorisms Lively mutters in a serviceable British accent don’t clarify anything. Review: Blake Lively and gritty ‘The Rhythm Section’ is plagued by a shaky adaptation 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s a great aphorism, pithy and cavalier, as emphatic as a gunshot. Exploring Family Trauma in “My Name Is Lucy Barton” 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The series opens with Mullein surveying a murder scene, while considering an aphorism from “Things Fall Apart,” Chinua Achebe’s novel of colonialism: “A man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.” N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z And throughout there are aphorisms such as “money can’t buy you happiness, but it is still better to cry in a Bentley than on a bus.” Are You Overlooking Something That Could Make You Richer? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Probably the most influential living writer of speculative fiction, his best known aphorism is “the future’s already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed”. William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was' 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z The Babylonian Talmud is a vast, rambling text written mostly in Aramaic that encompasses law codes, anecdotes, mysticism, customs, disputations and aphorisms, and serves as the cornerstone of Orthodox Jewish practices. Orthodox women seek bigger role as Jews end Talmud cycle 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s a snobbish and outdated aphorism, referring to a vestigial hierarchy of carbohydrates, to a time in which tortillas were eaten primarily by the country’s indigenous population and associated with poverty. Warming Up Guatemalan Style in Brooklyn 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Check out aphorism 628: it’s one of the loveliest things in all of literature. From Geoff Dyer to Nietzsche: the best books to inspire wanderlust 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Where Irving Kristol was a polemicist with a gift for aphorism, his wife was a more deliberate thinker, pondering issues of history, ethics and personal responsibility. Gertrude Himmelfarb, scholar of Victorian era and neoconservative thinker, dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z What was that other aphorism about the road paved with good intentions? It’s bad math, and politics, to take away private health plans 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z One of the queries her parents came up with was the missing word in an aphorism that she used to repeat to her little niece. A Christmas of grief nearly five years after Arizona woman's death in Islamic State captivity 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Raymond Chandler proved that the American form of Montaigne-grade aphorism is the wisecrack. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z One of the first products is a T-shirt with one of his favorite aphorisms, “In God we trust. Everyone else bring data.” Mike Bloomberg enters Democratic campaign for president 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z His insights are often expressed with the simplicity and elegance one finds in poetry or a book of aphorisms. Author adds a sixth stage of grief, one he's had to live 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z It was the vindication of Churchill’s aphorism that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. Opinion | Charles Krauthammer: The authoritarian temptation 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Tired aphorisms on free will and fate plunge writer-director Oliver Mann’s chaotic crime-drama “Such a Funny Life” into a humdrum groove of situations and reactions from which it never emancipates itself. Review: This joker is a humdrum, torturous tale that doesn't stand up 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Of all the aphorisms ever inscribed on greeting cards and stitched onto throw pillows, the most frustrating is that ubiquitous snippet of the Serenity Prayer. Opinion | What I Learned When I Stabbed Myself 52 Times 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z But the commercial power of those three little words also demonstrates how much we cling to aphorisms in this age of anxiety. Kylie Jenner has found three little words that sum up our age of anxiety | Jean Hannah Edelstein 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z He dallied in the pits with the drivers and car owners, listening to their aphorisms and sussing out nuggets of information. Calling Danger at the Grandview Speedway 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z He is excellent company, prone to ticklish humor and sincere, Yoda-esque aphorisms. Inside the Race to Break the Two-Hour Marathon 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Such is the temper of what may be the most openhearted and unproblematic passage in all of his writings—the closing aphorism of “Dawn,” perhaps his most beautiful book: Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z About 200 opponents of the sheriff’s actions gathered with homemade pupusas, a mariachi band and a Democratic congressman who offered aphorisms from the Founding Fathers. Immigration wars: In a small Md. city, dueling protests inflamed by rhetoric — and visitors — from Washington 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The bad news is, frankly, all over the place right now so let’s not dwell on that half of the aphorism and just enjoy the cricket, like this 24 carat nugget of pure joy. Ashes 2019: England v Australia second Test, day four – live 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z He had a magazine column in which he sometimes complimented but often eviscerated riding photos that equestrians submitted to him, and he even had an action figure that spouted his trademark snarky aphorisms. Whispers of Sexual Abuse Tailed an Equestrian Legend for Decades. At 81, He Was Barred for Life. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z I tend to put lines like that into the broader category of “aphorism.” The epitaph of the tea party 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z His book is organized loosely — it’s made up of four notebooks of aphorisms and reflections on a wide variety of sources that discuss what it means to lose the past. Review | To find serenity, freedom and creativity, sometimes it’s best to forget 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Twitter, in its imposed brevity, seems to affirm the aphorism’s original meaning: be intelligently succinct! The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Matching each picture with a philosophical aphorism was madness, it transpires: I spend hours combing the internet for suitably pretentious quotes. When will I be famous? Oscar the whippet’s bid for Instagram fame 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z “If there is no flour, there is no Torah,” the Jewish sages said, an aphorism that the team would surely embrace: material wealth is a precondition for dignity. Why Jared Kushner’s Bahrain Conference Won’t Do Much for the Palestinian Economy 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z The announcement is light on details, but heavy on aphorisms, saying the move continues the Obamas’ mission to “create compelling content that entertains and inspires viewers.” Spotify signs podcast deal with the Obamas’ production company 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z A newly erected signboard portrayed Simón Bolívar, the great hero of the chavista revolution, with the aphorism “If tyranny is chaos, revolution is order.” Venezuela’s Two Presidents Collide 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The ability to elide the extraneous is what makes the aphorism bite, but the possibility of inferring backward to a missing text is what makes the aphorism poetic. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But somewhere along that road with the Instapoets, aphorism got confused with affirmation — those things you tape onto your mirror to remind yourself not to text your ex. Opinion | Why Isn’t Instagram More Witty? 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Biden himself likes to say – among many other pithy aphorisms – that we shouldn’t compare him to the almighty; that we should compare him to the alternative. Whoa there Democrats – Joe Biden isn't as electable as you think | Richard Wolffe 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Governments like to deal in hard numbers and targets, not "try your best" aphorisms. How might ministers win over climate protesters? 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z “The crime is what you did, it’s not who you are” is an aphorism of anti-incarceration activists, and this perspective enlivens almost all the reformist literature. Who Belongs in Prison? 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Mill’s scientific-minded answer is that we recognize the aphorism, with its immediacy, its turn toward tangible experience, as the preferable alternative to dogma. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The purpose of the aphorism is to bring unexpected perspective. Opinion | Why Isn’t Instagram More Witty? 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z The aphorism “All models are wrong, but some are useful”, attributed to statistician George Box, is a cliché for a reason. The joy of stats 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Another famous aphorism also haunts the debate – the Spanish philosopher George Santayana’s assertion that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. Franco’s shadow: reburial battle sees Spain confront its darkest days 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z In his masterful diplomatic memoir, William J. Burns uses this aphorism, attributed to former British prime minister Harold Macmillan, to explain what so often sabotaged the strategic plans of the five presidents he served. Review | A cautious diplomat who couldn’t stop U.S. mistakes 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Pascal’s great aphorism “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing” announces a purposeful romanticism of small parts, which don’t have to cohere to vibrate. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The Roman Stoics used aphorisms to build fortitude. Opinion | Why Isn’t Instagram More Witty? 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z She wears blue wigs, posts easy aphorisms about life and is excited to be visiting America right now from Australia. Inside the Secret Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z He is funny and good-natured, but, though he attempted a few aphorisms, he left not a single memorable one behind. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z We need to update Marx’s famous aphorism that “history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce”. How Xi Jinping became a networked authoritarian thanks to his little red app | John Naughton 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Is the aphorism—empirical or mystical, funny or fragmentary—a living form? The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Less expected are the handwritten aphorisms and quotes that pepper their surfaces. Lee Quiñones is famous for his graffiti. An L.A. exhibition shows the artist to be more 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z He cited the aphorism leveled at all who suspect “zebras”: An unusual manifestation of a common disease is much more likely than even a classic presentation of a rare disease. The Patient’s Wife Thought Her Husband Was Being Treated for the Wrong Disease. She Was Right. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Wit is, typically, a conservative genre: it summarizes what’s known; to condense a truth to an aphorism, you need to be fairly certain that your listener will accept it as a truth. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Mattis remains popular within the military and with veterans who cheered his tough but pithy aphorisms. ‘A sad day for America’: Washington fears a Trump unchecked by Mattis 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Contemporary in style, Paterson’s aphorisms still have a taint of the past. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z “The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species,” wrote Douglas Coupland; and in the same spirit, one might come up with a few more aphorisms. Forget Zuckerberg: the tech giants don’t have to own the future | John Harris 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z “Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child” is the first folk aphorism Lukianoff and Haidt recommend parents and educators adopt. Kids Today Are Being Socialized to Think They're Fragile Snowflakes 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z This aphorism serves as a kind of psychic engine for “Those Who Knew,” Idra Novey’s mesmerizing follow-up to her acclaimed first novel, “Ways to Disappear.” A prescient take on #metoo and power: Idra Novey's 'Those Who Knew' 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z His most famous aphorism about Hollywood was "Nobody knows anything." Stephen King, Lin-Manuel Miranda and other celebs salute 'legendary adventurer in screenwriting' William Goldman 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z But it may be that this kind of slightly ragged, expansive, narrative aphorism is the true aphorism of the modern era. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z They are required to study standard Chinese, memorise excerpts from a 13th-century Confucian text, and recite patriotic aphorisms. China’s mass incarceration of Muslims cannot be left unchallenged | Timothy Grose 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Artist Roni Horn used a variety of colored marker pens and a host of writing styles to sprinkle common aphorisms and epigrams in clusters from floor to ceiling. A year after Hurricane Harvey delayed its debut, a home for modern drawings opens in Houston - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Hillel proceeded to do so with the following aphorism: Charlotte Pence on her new book about tolerance, dialogue — and the Messiah’s return 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z He cited aphorisms by William Shakespeare, the author Richard Wright and Coretta Scott King to make the case that Hamilton should live and that his murders won’t be “redeemed by an act of retaliation.” Va. jury is urged to impose death sentence on man who killed wife and police officer 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z This kind of aphorism fills the space left not only by the epigram but by the epistles once exchanged by friends with time to be funny. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z My Facebook feed is a nightmare of radicalized everyone and fighting all the time and stupid JPGs with angry aphorisms and petitions. This Melissa McCarthy Story Just Might (Maybe? Possibly?) Cheer You Up 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z A pair of vertical scrolls with parallel aphorisms written in Chinese calligraphy — “Put Down Your Burdens and Return to the Lord” and “Take Up Tranquillity and Celebrate Everlasting Life” — hung on either side. The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Can anyone find comfort in empty aphorisms about how we shall prevail? The Kavanaugh case revealed a system rigged against women | Nesrine Malik 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z He sums it up in one of his aphorisms: “You repay a teacher badly by becoming merely a pupil.” Far right, misogynist, humourless? Why Nietzsche is misunderstood 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z And so, by this process, the aphorism properly so called is by now backing up into its cousin, aphoristic prose, which certainly has kept a living presence in criticism and reviewing. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Smythe, in the Hudson Valley, cited an aphorism that women need to be asked to run several times before they actually consider it. 5 Senate Races and 10 Women Add Up to One Big Moment 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z There’s an old scientific aphorism that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Scientists and doctors zap theory that microwave weapon injured Cuba diplomats 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Jobs would seem to have failed substantially at the love part of these aphorisms, but the point, says his daughter, is that he tried. The daughter Steve Jobs denied: ‘Clearly I was not compelling enough for my father' 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “Hence the aphorism that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” High-profile journals put to reproducibility test 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z The aphorism, in the course of history, can be taken as the epitome of the rational or the epitome of the irrational. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z He liked the Zen aphorism, If you meet the Buddha in the road, kill him. A Buddhism Critic Goes on a Silent Buddhist Retreat 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Such koanesque aphorisms — celebrated in the not entirely tongue-in-cheek 1982 book of philosophy “The Tao of Pooh” — are sprinkled liberally throughout “Christopher Robin” and are some of the film’s greatest pleasures. Review | Pooh brings his surprising wisdom to the silly, slapsticky ‘Christopher Robin’ 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z So many of the aphorisms that exist about the shade have a hectoring tone: “A woman without a little black dress, has no future,” said Coco Chanel. The bright side: why women fell out of love with black 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Tip O’Neill’s aphorism that all politics is local often feels quaint in the Trump era. Analysis | The Daily 202: Inside the House GOP super PAC’s strategy to localize every key race 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z We are told that, in reading, context is everything, but the aphorism reminds us that there is joy, too, in the freedom from context. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z "He wrote these original sayings, aphorisms, and poetry for himself as much as for others," Random House said in the news release. Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to cheer you up 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z See here an entire story, “A Camalote,” reminiscent of both Borges’ and Kafka’s aphorisms: Sara Gallardo's work has finally been published in English. It's about time. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Physicists seem to adhere to Keats’s old aphorism that truth equals beauty. How Physics Lost Its Way 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Voltaire, anti-Semite and sage of the Enlightenment, is credited with the aphorism “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” How Social-Media Trolls Turned U.C. Berkeley Into a Free-Speech Circus 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z The aphorism means: We do take pleasure—not in every case, perhaps, but more often than we might admit—in the misfortune of our best friends. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde’s penchant for pithy aphorisms may be his most appreciated trait now, but “Dorian Gray” succeeds on a different level: florid, eerie and murky. Book-It’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ nails the sensual and spooky mood 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z He served up another aphorism: “As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” Do Our Questions Create the World? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Rodriguez had tried to cushion all that came next with positivity — with Christian music, prayer and aphorisms framed in every corner of the house. ‘It was my job, and I didn’t find him’: Stoneman Douglas resource officer remains haunted by massacre 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Handsome and spouting aphorisms, he was known as a ladies’ man; an obituary in The Los Angeles Times said he was married six times. The Equestrian Coach Who Minted Olympians, and Left a Trail of Child Molestation 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z We don’t absorb aphorisms as esoteric wisdom; we test them against our own experience. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Wilde’s penchant for pithy aphorisms may be his most appreciated trait now, but “Dorian Gray” succeeds on a different level: florid, eerie and murky. Book-It’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ nails the sensual and spooky mood 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z An aphorism coined after the French Revolution is relevant to the ways we fetishize our favorite parts of a foodstuff today. Pink Starbursts and brownie edges: How our quirky preferences are driving the future of snacking 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z A Twitter hashtag — #GorsuchStyle — is devoted to mocking his tendency to follow a crisp aphorism with a plodding explanation of its meaning. #GorsuchStyle Garners a Gusher of Groans. But Is His Writing Really That Bad? 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z The “Baby Book” begins with an aphorism that puts many women at a disadvantage before they’ve even started mothering: “Feeling good about your baby’s birth carries over into feeling good about your baby.” How Harvey Karp Turned Baby Sleep Into Big Business 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Where big books remind us of how hard the work of understanding can be, aphorisms remind us of how little we have to know to get the point. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z One of the prominent themes running through the early aphorisms of Kanye's book is a tension between fear and love. A philosopher rates Kanye West's tweets 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Following a 24-hour break, he returned again on Tuesday with a string of aphorisms: “As a creative your ideas are your strongest form of currency,” read one tweet. Kanye West returns to Twitter, writing a philosophy book 'in real time' 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z He cited the aphorism of the French writer Madame de Stael: “In Russia, the government is autocracy tempered by strangulation.” Opinion | America ignores Russia at its peril 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z I’m reminded of the political aphorism “Politicians run against Washington as a cesspool, but when they get there they find it’s really a hot tub.” Opinion | Americans will pay in lots of ways for Pruitt’s comfort 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z The best writers of aphoristic prose—G. K. Chesterton, Clive James—use the aphorism as comic relief on the climb, more than as the summit itself. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Since he reactivated his account on Monday, West has been sending out a series of bon mots and aphorisms. A philosopher rates Kanye West's tweets 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z It unfolds with a mix of aphorism, fantasy and myth. Poem: Beginning With a Horse 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z I have tried to cut back, after realising how much of my time was spent staring at a scrolling feed of aphorisms ranging from mildly amusing to vaguely traumatic. ‘Never get high on your own supply’ – why social media bosses don’t use social media 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z A famous Chinese aphorism goes as follows: “The thunder is loud, but there’s not much rain.” Chinese Dragon Still Needs U.S.Treasurys for Its Hoard 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Mill noted that “to be unsystematic is of the essence of all truths which rest on specific experiment,” and that there is, in a good aphorism, “generally truth, or a bold approach to some truth.” The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z No other tweet aphorism better demonstrates the existentialism at the core of Kanye's book. A philosopher rates Kanye West's tweets 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z She’s a reminder of the aphorism that talent is universal, but opportunity is not. Opinion | Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z It’s one of the most famous aphorisms in the literature of food, and I thought about it many times as I was probing the lives of the six women in my book What She Ate. A matter of taste: six remarkable women and the food they ate 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z The filled pages that precede the empty one offer a miscellany of memories, reflections, aphorisms and quotations bearing on Kagge’s theme — the search for silence amid the clatter and clutter of our frenetic world. Review | When listening to silence allows you to hear more 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The empirical test of the aphorism takes the form first of laughter and then of longevity, and its confidential tone makes it candid, not cynical. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Thus, Reinhold Niebuhr’s aphorism: “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” Opinion | The real greatest threat to democracy this year 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z In my travels, I often find that the aphorism “less is more” holds true as it relates to technology. What Tech Tools Frequent Travelers Should Always Pack 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z “Will Rogers was never proven wrong,” said Mr. Scott, invoking Rogers’s oft-cited aphorism that, as a Democrat, he belonged to no organized party. Avoiding Trump, but Adopting His Divisive Playbook: Will It Work in Virginia? 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z She had a talent for producing deliciously inane aphorisms that so inflamed media and social networks that one had to acknowledge in her a certain kind of contemporary genius. The first social media suicide 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The kind of witty generalization about human behavior that Mill considers an aphorism to be is largely absent from Hui’s book. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Beyond the 60/40 rule, here are the three financial aphorisms that readers and listeners ask me about most often: Financial rules of thumb aren’t the answer for everyone 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Trump is performing almost 20 points better in Russia than in the United States, which, of course, only proves true the biblical aphorism: A prophet is not without honor except in his own country. Opinion | The 144 million people who like Trump best 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia expressed a common misconception about Chinese philosophy, dismissing it as the “mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.” Why Americans Need to Understand Chinese Ways of Thinking 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z “There’s an old aphorism that says that the law is entitled to every man’s evidence, and I’ll leave it at that,” Mr. Pompeo added. WikiLeaks will ‘take down America any way they can’: Mike Pompeo, CIA Director 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Once the reader accepts this more expansive and sombre definition of the aphorism, much of interest follows, written in that dense, allusive, and largely non-aphoristic style which is called good writing in academia. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z He recalls the aphorism that every great truth passes through three phases: “First, they say it’s not true. Second, they say it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say they’ve known it all along.” Neil deGrasse Tyson: fighting science denial starts with people, not politicians 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z His great-grandfather was an Italian immigrant and roadbuilder who coined the family aphorism that it’s “better to sell apples on the corner than work for The Man.” Perspective | The versatile D.C. investor with a buzzy nonprofit 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The other “stupid” aphorism you’ve heard is this: “Keep it simple, stupid.” iOS 11 will change how you'll use your iPad forever 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z “Be fearful when others are greedy; be greedy when others are fearful,” goes one of Mr. Buffett’s most famous aphorisms. Warren Buffett Comes to the Aid of a Big Canadian Mortgage Lender 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “Philosophies come and go, theologies rise and fall, but the aphorism abides,” Hui announces. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Although senators acknowledged that some change in the State Department is overdue, the budgetary approach Tillerson outlined was dismissed as penny-wise and pound-foolish, an aphorism repeated several times in both committees. Senators sharply question State Department budget cuts 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z So why does Lotto, a renowned perceptual neuroscientist, bury the science under prepackaged, superficial aphorisms? Opinion | Why our grasp of reality is fragile 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Think of the aphorism quoted by members of Alcoholics Anonymous: “Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.” Opinion | Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, House Speaker Tip O’Neill was famous for his aphorism, “All politics is local.” 4 scary implications of the French election 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Hui even poses, a little apologetically, the question: Are tweets anything like the classic aphorism? The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z April showers are certainly good for flowers, but the aphorism leaves out two major factors that contribute to their blooming: temperatures and sun. New York Today: Do April Showers Really Bring May Flowers? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z |
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