aphorism

There’s another old aphorism about wealth, credited to the burlesque star and actress, Sophie Tucker.

In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: A person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

The queen of all she surveys, she speaks in moony aphorisms, is posing for Vanity Fair and orchestrating a fundraising gala, among minor entertainments.

In Atwood’s first novel, she exists only through the viewpoint of June and most often as the source of aphorisms.

For many in F1 there is an aphorism that sums up Red Bull's approach to their second seat: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."