aphorist

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The French aphorist François de La Rochefoucauld remarked that “hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.”

From The Wall Street Journal

If there is one immortal distinction Shorter can certainly claim, it’s that of being jazz’s all-time greatest aphorist.

From New York Times

Clive’s appreciations, in that book, ranged from the filmmaker Michael Mann to the Austrian aphorist Alfred Polgar, alongside damnations of his devils, including, controversially but persuasively, one on Walter Benjamin.

From The New Yorker

Still, buy the premise and you’ll enjoy the bit, as David Letterman, an aphorist of sorts himself, used to say.

From The New Yorker

The only true aphorist of our time, I contend, is Dril.

From New York Times