| |  | | | | | | Aphorism is a brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words. | | Glossary of Literary Terms | | | | | | | Aphorisms by authors: | | Allen, Woody | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor | Jesus Christ | | Aristotle | Einstein, Albert | Nietzsche, Friedrich | | Brecht, Bertolt | Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Shakespeare, William | | Byron, Lord | Fields, W. C. | Shaw, George Bernard | | Camus, Albert | Franklin, Benjamin | Socrates | | Chekhov, Anton | Frederick the Great | Thoreau, Henry David | | Churchill, Winston | Gandhi, Mahatma | Twain, Mark | | Coallier, Steven | Hemingway, Ernest | Unknown | | Confucius | Hitler, Adolf | Wilde, Oscar | | Disney, Walt | Horton, Doug | All authors  | | | | | |