Day: June 25, 2016

Aphorisms

Rhyme doesn’t exist. It’s just a  wordy twist

Time won’t desist.I feel I see, I missed.

My mind’s made up, don’t confuse me  with a painted woman.

Talk is deep. Until you  try to toy her.

Forsake my advice — I  do

Advice is free but action is all

Never imitate virgins.

Never use  laptops as trays.

I got lost in oughts. It was unfamiliar territory.They call it Ethics apparently

Sure, I’d love to help you shout … now, which  day did you make an enemy?

I would like to slip into something more comfortable – like a coma.Did you bring a brick?

I started with nothing, and I still have most of it.One day I’ll invent zero.That will make my name.

Ever stop to think, and forget you can walk at the same time?

There is no dance without the dancers.And an audience

A hermit

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Though once I  enjoyed company and talk,
I ‘ve become a hermit  as I age.
I value stillness,silence as I walk.
And news of politicians makes  me rage.

Familiar friends are welcome at my door
Cats  may sit upon my  generous  lap
Spiders may make webs from drapes to door.
Letters from the distant fill the gap.

I  hate to argue when  we have no facts
But shouts and yells are there  to  force my will
I even fear that some will  grab an axe
And with their violence render me quite still.

For force is now the medium of the day
Conversation dies  when  friendships fray.

 

Aphorisms can become cliches

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An aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic (concise) and memorable form. Aphorism literally means a “distinction” or “definition”. In modern usage an aphorism is generally understood to be a concise statement containing a subjective truth or observation cleverly and pithily written.

A bad penny always turns up.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

A dog is a man’s best friend.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

A jack of all trades is master of none.

A job worth doing is worth doing well.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Rhymes for aphorism

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Aphorism

Full Definition of aphorism

  1. 1:  a concise statement of a principle

  2. 2:  a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment :  adage

aphorist

play\-rist\ noun

Examples of aphorism in a sentence

  1. Confronted by a broadminded, witty, and tolerant cosmopolitan, for whom the infinite varieties of human custom offered a source of inexhaustible fascination, Thucydides presented himself as a humorless nationalist, an intellectual given to political aphorisms and abstract generalizations. —Peter Green, New York Review of Books, 15 May 2008

  2. It doesn’t take long to learn that a lie always unravels and that it always ends up making you feel royally cruddy. “Do the kind of work during the day that allows you to sleep at night” was anaphorism my grandfather was fond of. —Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2006

  3. The Sun twice went into journalism legend. Its city editor John Bogart is generally credited with the aphorism “When a dog bites a man, that’s not news. But when a man bites a dog, that’s news.” And the paper delivered America’s most treasured editorial in 1897, when a young girl, whose playmates had told her there was no Santa Claus, wrote and asked the Sun to tell her the truth. —Peter Andrews, American Heritage, October 1994

  4. Truman is remembered as much today for his aphorisms as his policies: “The buck stops here,” “If you can’t stand the heat stay out of the kitchen,” and the like. Such slogans are endearing in a time of plastic politicians who make a career of ducking responsibilities… —Ronald Steel, New Republic, 10 Aug. 1992

  5. When decorating, remember the familiar aphorism, “less is more.”

  6. <what does the aphorism “Hindsight is 20/20” mean?>

Did You Know?

Aphorism was originally used in the world of medicine. Credit Hippocrates, the Greek physician regarded as the father of modern medicine, with influencing our use of the word. He usedaphorismos (a Greek ancestor of aphorism meaning “definition” or “aphorism”) in titling a book outlining his principles on the diagnosis and treatment of disease. That volume offered many examples that helped to define aphorism, beginning with the statement that starts the book’s introduction: “Life is short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgment difficult.” English speakers originally used the term mainly in the realm of the physical sciences, but eventually broadened its use to cover principles in other fields.

Origin and Etymology ofaphorism

Middle French aphorisme, from Late Latinaphorismus, from Greek aphorismosdefinition, aphorism, from aphorizein to define, from apo- + horizein to bound — more at horizon
First Known Use: 1528

Related to aphorism

Synonyms

adage, saying, apothegm, byword, epigram,maxim, proverb, saw, sententia, word

Related Words

bromide, cliché (also cliche), commonplace,platitude, wheeze; expression, felicity;axiom, motto, precept, truism, truth;formula; comment, note, reflection, remark

Hermetism

noun, often capitalized her·me·tism \ˈhər-mə-ˌti-zəm\
Popularity: Bottom 20% of words

Definition of hermetism

  1. 1a :  a system of ideas based on hermetic teachingsb :  adherence to or practice of hermetic doctrine

  2. 2:  the practice of being hermetically mysterious <it is not … willful hermetism, if the message of their art is veiled and indirect — R. J. Goldwater>

hermetist

play\-mə-tist\ noun

Rambling on with Emile.. a story .

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Stan had enjoyed being fussed over by the two women but now he was feeling better he decided to take Emile for a walk.They set off down a little track leading into a wood behind their house.Emile would never go to the wood alone as it seemed very big to a cat.But Stan wore a red anorak which Emile could see quite well.Emile gambolled around the trees like a lamb,even running up one or two tree trunks which is behaviour rarely seen in lambs ,even in excessively hot weather.
Thus Stan mused to himself as he wandered along between the autumn trees and shrubs.
I wonder what the odds are of me ever seeing a lamb run up a tree,he pondered.Men always like to think of serious problems such as this, unlike women who think about the curtains and the bed linen and other mundane realities like food and cleanliness.
I wonder if I can look it up on Google, he thought.But even if it has happened in New Zealand it’s much too far for me to go to look.
Rather expensive too,no doubt.
Emile walked into a muddy pool and came out all brown and filthy.
Really Emile,you are 5 years old now.Can’t you take care?Y our coat is all muddy.
Never mind said Emile,I’ll lick it all off later while I calculate pi to 100 decimal places.
No,you won’t said Stan,it’s about time you had a bath.Emile
I think I’m too dirty to go in the bath,can’t I just have a wash in a big plastic bowl?
Well,economy is good sometimes,replied Stan absentmindedly.You can bathe in the old jam saucepan,that’s a nice big size.
But you won’t put me on the stove and boil me,Emile teased him gently.
Of course not.I love you too much ,Emile,to torment you like that.
After Mary,Annie,Lyra and all the other ladies you love.
Well,it’s different.One can love in many ways.In theory at least.As you grow older your heart grows larger and you can keep more creatures in there,sheltering in your bosom.
I thought only ladies had bosoms,Emile purred.
Well,according to the Bible,Abraham had a bosom.It’s a place around your heart where you keep those you love.
Have I got a bosom,Emile enquired shyly.
Do you love anyone?
Yes,I love you and Mary,the milkman and the lady cat down the road.
Well in that case Emile,you definitely have a bosom,Stan answered confusedly yet contemplatively.
What ever will Emile ask me next ,he wondered.I don’t know if I can keep up with his development.
And so they rambled on in the last warm day of summer.Two males out for a little exercise and possibly some  beer also, if they kept on a bit further through the wood.

close like shut eyelids

Ice cream pink grey sky
Soon night will fall on the trees
Flattening with shades

The artist describes
A language is  renewed
We can each  hear it.

Immense the  shrubs seem
Infinitely many leaves
Close like shut eyelids

The wren is silent
Now the scent of damp  darkness
Is stronger than night.