Aphorism used in a sentence

Aphorism in a sentence as a noun

Off topic, but an old aphorism is, "If you want advice, ask for money.

The story behind the aphorism goes like this:A worldly wise frog visits his friend, a frog in a well.

There is an aphorism, which, like so many aphorisms, is uselessly true: "enjoy the little things".

"An armed society is a polite society" is a nonsense aphorism.

That's a nice aphorism, but it's too vague; obviously we wouldn't condone artists breaking rules against child abuse or ******.

Ever heard the aphorism "never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence"?

"The aphorism 'you can't tell a book by its cover' originated in the times when books were sold in plain cardboard covers, to be bound by each purchaser according to his own taste.

The post does quote one popular statistics aphorism, "correlation is not causation", but is sorely in need of another of them, "the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'".

That's a mindless aphorism thrown about to deflect blame from the actual people responsible for decisions, similar to "companies are legally required to maximize profit".

Sure, no one insider's revelations alone will suffice to radically change the situation, but, to borrow a Medieval adaptation of a classical aphorism, gutta cavet lapidem, non vi, sed saepe cadendo.