Crossword-Solution: APHORISMS
We have 8 clues for the answer “APHORISMS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "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 |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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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.
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.
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.
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 wordy superstructure of aphorisms and paradox falls to the ground, disclosing fair “Truth,” so long a captive within the temple erected in her honor.
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…
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
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).