Aphorisms Galore!

Aphorists

An aphorist is, of course, someone who coins aphorisms. Aphorisms Galore! has hundreds of aphorists in its collection. Some are historical, some contemporary; some are famous, some obscure. Some of them are Aphorisms Galore! users, some are not.

Aphorists

James Michener

American author; b. 1907; d. 1997

Lewis Carroll

English author; b. 1832; d. 1898

Ambrose Bierce

American author and journalist; b. 1842; d. 1913

Aristophanes

Greek playwright; b. 448 BCE; d. 388 BCE

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet; b. 1564; d. 1616

Thomas Macaulay

English author and historian; b. 1800; d. 1859

Isaac Asimov

Russian-born American science-fiction author; b. 1920; d. 1992

Aristotle

Greek philosopher and scientist; b. 384 BCE; d. 322 BCE

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright and 1935 Nobel prize winner; b. 1856; d. 1950

George Lucas

American screenplay writer and movie director and producer; b. 1944

Viktor Frankl

Austrian-born American psychologist and author; survived incarceration in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II; b. 1905; d. 1997

James Matthew Barrie

Scottish novelist and playwright; b. 1860; d. 1937