Famous quotes containing the words chinese and/or aphorism:
“We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)