Crossword-Solution: APHORISMS 9 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

We have 8 clues for the answer “APHORISMS”

Clue Answers
"Better safe than sorry" and "Actions speak louder than words" 1 answer
Gnomologist's output 1 answer
HIPPOCRATES, work by 2 answers
Terse truths 2 answers
ADAGES 8 answers
Saws 9 answers
Sayings 10 answers
Maxims 14 answers
✏️ Suggest another clue Know another question for crossword solution "APHORISMS"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
11 +1

New Suggestion for "APHORISMS"

Answer (solution)
Clue

Related word tools

Sentences with APHORISMS (5)

With the majority such an opinion is shelved with all those trite aphorisms which require some catastrophe to bring their tremendous meanings thoroughly home.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
They were monuments of laborious, elaborate neatness, the trite moralities and ready-made aphorisms of the philanthropists and publicists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
Smoke is almost as great a solvent as divorce: both tend to obscure the moral issue.” Nothing could have been less consonant with Selden’s mood than Van Alstyne’s after-dinner aphorisms, but as long as the latter confined himself to generalities his listener’s nerves were in control.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
Again, “We must never forget that the principal export of Great Britain to the United States IS the United States.” Again, speaking of Christianity, “What is intellectually unsound cannot be morally sound.” He shoots off a whole column of aphorisms in a single evening.
The Stark Munro Letters J. Stark Munro 1995
The wordy superstructure of aphorisms and paradox falls to the ground, disclosing fair “Truth,” so long a captive within the temple erected in her honor.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008

Quotes with APHORISMS (3)

Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be eas…
Samuel Johnson
When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms, General.-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn
Howard Tayler Resident Mad Scientist
Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They’re epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, captions, slogans, and adages. Some are art, some are commercial; these are forms with integrity.
Virginia Heffernan Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
Where this answer appears

Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).