aphorism

Contrary to what the current culture of “hacks,” quick fixes, and aphorisms like move fast and break things would have you think, progress is often slow, and that’s okay.

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.”

As an oft-quoted statistical aphorism goes, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

An American football coach tasked with running a British Premier League soccer team, Ted meets fans and players’ jeers with can-do aphorisms and basic human decency.

He’s in his late 70s so he often speaks in aphorisms straight out of Mayberry USA.

We must disabuse ourselves of this perhaps half-ironic but still telling aphorism.

He left the crowd with a Greek aphorism—“to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”

Thus my aphorism of the week: trying to contain damage only does more damage.

He defines Dynamic Inaction with one pithy aphorism: “When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.”

He utters the aphorism in immaculate French, and judging from an overheard phone call, his Italian is almost as good.

The well-worn aphorism of the Frenchman, “History repeats itself,” was about to assert itself.

Part of the first aphorism of Hippocrates is—Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή.

"Hit's the pore house fer a cow hand," was his terse aphorism on the subject, and Landy had never seen a "fitten" poor house.

Paragraphs sometimes close with a shorter statement of the proposition, a sort of aphorism or epigram.

For each or either of these extra-scriptural Articles of Faith the preceding Aphorism supplies a safe criterion.