"If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning." This aphorism was said by Damien Cannon. It means that when you wish for something, you shouldn't be upset when the bad things associated with it come, and I think it relates well to high school. People often wish they had things, and when they get them they realize that there are downsides that they hadn't seen before. .
Many high school students get overwhelmed with work and wish their teachers did not give work that was so hard. Then they coast during that class but do not learn as much as expected. During the next school year, those students would be far behind the other people who took the class also. So even though having the easy class may have been nice while it lasted, it had a bad consequence people wouldn't see coming unless they had thought about it. People would not wish for that if they knew about the down side of what they were wishing for.
Also, in high school people are not always happy with their friends. Sometimes someone wants popular friend. But in the process of trying to make friends for the wrong reasons, the friends he had had before would not like having to take a back seat so that he could become friends with other people instead. He would probably end up losing the friends he had, so instead of having some friends he liked but who were not very popular, he would be left without friends, just some people he had tried to befriend that he hardly knew. This is like the aphorism above because he is praying for one thing, but in trying to make it happen there is a consequence he had never thought about. .
Aphorisms are a great way to begin. Three aphorisms I've chosen to live by are "Stitch in time saves nine", "Don't cry over spilled milk", and "Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked but never well mended". ... In connection with the said aphorism, this means to not stay stuck on things that happened in the past. ...
Aphorisms are somewhat valuable to our society. ... In the following I will be discussing the role of an aphorism plays in my life, and their importance. ... Another aphorism I selected is "you are your own authority." ... Concluding on my thoughts, and reflecting on both of these aphorisms, I believe that they are solely important and true to life. ... These aphorisms can be used in anyone's life and can be applied to fit society. ...
An aphorism is defined as a terse saying or opinion, an adage, or a proverb. The dictionary's definition of "aphorism", while providing an accurate interpretation, does not go deep enough to allow full understanding of the use of aphorisms in Tuesday's With Morrie. ... Like the previous one, this aphorism suggests that death should be accepted. ... "Love each other or perish" is an aphorism by Morrie's favorite poet, W.H. ... The aphorisms in Tuesday's With Morrie, though far from abstruse, stray from the usual banal clichés that many people associate with aphorisms....
- (Aphorism 24). ... And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you- (aphorism 146). ... "Even the body within which individuals treat each other as equals, as suggested before "and this happens in every healthy aristocracy "if it is a living and not a dying body, has to do to other bodies what the individuals within it refrain from doing to each other: it will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow spread, seize, become predominant "not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and life is simply will to power- (aphor...
In Thomas Paine's Essay the use of aphorisms is vast. An aphorism is a short, pointed statement expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth. Because aphorisms capture our attention and are easy to remember, writers may use them to express or emphasize important points. ... Of the many aphorisms, some examples are: " yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph- (Paine 122). " If being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth- (Paine122). ... What makes this essay so effect...
Throughout Aphorism 418 in which the main portion of the Wager is addressed, Pascal tends to not provide language pertaining to any specific religion. ... However, the last few Aphorisms included in the Wager section do explicitly make claim to Christianity as being the proper choice of religion. ... Now it is not certain whether or not this excerpt was intended to be included in Pascal's Wager, and judging by the number of the original placement of the aphorism, it was not, but that does not take away from the fact that Pascal held this belief. ...
"Juveniles are like the rising sun, on whom our hope is placed." This is one of the most familiar aphorisms of the former Chairman of China, Mao. Nevertheless, it turns out to be a provoking sarcasm nowadays whenever we read newspapers - teenage crimes have reached a severely mounting state in Hong...
In the first aphorism of On The Prejudices OF Philosophers, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of being prejudiced in valuing truth over untruth. ... In aphorism 16 Nietzsche insists that such an immediate certainty is just not true, as even the statement "I think" depends on all kinds of presuppositions and references that are not given at that immediate. ...