Aphorist

Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist. ❋ Louis Bayard (2010)

I toyed with being an aphorist, but the mode can get a bit tiresome. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We can do no better than conclude with the observation of the great aphorist Samuel Johnson: ❋ Tim Stretton (2009)

That's the difference between a comic-strip artist and an "aphorist." ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2009)

Book critic Carlin Romano, who is also critic-at-large for the Chronicle of Higher Education (in which role he was a finalist last year for a Pulitzer in criticism), takes a look at that dubious aphorist, E.M. Cioran. ❋ Frank Wilson (2006)

As usual, Easy isn't much of a detective - his inquiries lead to a chain of suspicious characters who finger one another - but he could hardly be improved as a philosopher and aphorist. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She had been a child apart from her earliest years, a whimsical, sometimes meltingly reflective aphorist. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

The aphorist does not argue or explain: he asserts. ❋ Auden, W.H. (1971)

In fact, his chief occupation was teaching physics at Göttingen; he was also an astronomer of distinction (one of the craters of the moon is named after him), a mathematician, a philosopher, a brilliant letter writer, and the finest aphorist of his century. ❋ Hodgart, Matthew (1970)

One might have added, if the aphorist had stayed for an answer, that history is rather interesting when it repeats itself: historians are not. ❋ Unknown (1921)

If the philosophy of the excellent aphorist is sound, I certainly have not much wisdom to boast of; and none of the big books will tell me what a wise man would have done had he met Carlotta in the ❋ William John Locke (1896)

"If any person says he's going to speak on their behalf, he's little more than a braggart and an aphorist at this point, including me." ❋ Unknown (2012)

He was a great aphorist without a sense of humour, a lack Hofmann holds against Zweig, and a basket-case rolled up in one. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some home-schooled aphorist out there paid to watch ❋ Unknown (2009)

Karl Kraus (April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. ❋ Unknown (2009)