Aphorist: someone who formulates aphorisms.
Puns are the gag hand buzzers of conversation. It hurts a bit but everyone gets a good laugh out of it. ~Grey Livingston
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. ~Sydney Smith
People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. ~Author Unknown
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer. ~Swami X
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. ~Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. ~Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. ~Cynthia Ozick
Labor: One of the processes by which A acquires property of B. ~Ambrose Bierce
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. ~E.V. Lucas
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. ~Albert Einstein
How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. ~Thomas a Kempis
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. ~Joseph Joubert
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. ~Julius Caesar
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven. ~Jessi Lane Adams
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. ~Ecclesiastes 9:10
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall