An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. – Robert Brault
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. – Robert Brault
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault
An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing. – Robert Brault
It is a sad lament — the happiness you might have found if you had taken the path that still lies right there in front of you. – Robert Brault
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth…. It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air. – William Gilmore Simms, Egeria: Or, Voices of Thought and Counsel for the Woods a