The aphorist does not argue or explain: he asserts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonjour Chazal] Reference

I toyed with being an aphorist, but the mode can get a bit tiresome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Scarlet: Summary and book reviews of Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley.] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inquirer trifecta ...] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson] Reference

Some home-schooled aphorist out there paid to watch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

That's the difference between a comic-strip artist and an "aphorist.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Something Old, Nothing New] Reference

Sadly, this sentence is not my own but the work of some anonymous aphorist in an online forum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

George Santayana, the philosopher / aphorist who said "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

He was a great aphorist without a sense of humour, a lack Hofmann holds against Zweig, and a basket-case rolled up in one.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Review of Books] Reference

One might have added, if the aphorist had stayed for an answer, that history is rather interesting when it repeats itself: historians are not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Historians] Reference

Karl Kraus (April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Dissector Blog] Reference

Have we as a nation, in the words of that old aphorist and patriot Ben Franklin, been frightened into giving up "essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety?".    From Wordnik.com.  [NiemanWatchdog.org] Reference

Author Harold Bloom, actress Sylvia Miles, aphorist Ashleigh Brilliant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whole Life Times] Reference

Reads like—well, I guess in fact it is—a literary journal, an aphorist’s delight, but also blackly comic, gossipy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood Savage] Reference

He was an aphorist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

This may be because I am an aphorist manqué.    From Wordnik.com.  [April 2009] Reference

These included Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane) and Bel-Ami (Guy de Maupassant) for Penguin Classics; A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert), Nana (Emile Zola) and Les Liaisons dangereuses (Choderlos de Laclos) for the Oxford University Press World’s Classics series; and, for Short Books, a selection from the aphorist and epigrammatist Nicolas Chamfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Different Stripe:] Reference

French aphorist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friendships of Women] Reference

Joseph Prescott, aphorist.    From Wordnik.com.  [iToot Stream] Reference