Aphorisms by William Markiewicz
I don’t know much about William Markiewicz, except that he sent an email via this website directing me to his aphorisms, which he calls “Extracts of Existence.” He writes a straightforward, unadorned kind of aphorism that more often than not takes the form of a definition; i.e. X is Y. (The Definition is one of [...]
Aphorisms by John Robert Colombo
I thought I had a serious aphorism addiction problem, until I came across the work of Canadian author and anthologist John Robert Colombo. He has compiled such books as The Penguin Dictionary of Popular Canadian Quotations (2006), Colombo’s All-Time Great Canadian Quotations (1994), and The Dictionary of Canadian Quotations (1991), among others. In [...]