Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

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

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 short saying often contains much wisdom.

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

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

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

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

There is no proverb that is not true.

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

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

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

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

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

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

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.

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