R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

There is no proverb that is not true.

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

A witty saying proves nothing.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.