I like this one for its brevity and thought:
Why should the whole lake have the same name?
and this one too:
A screwdriver is for screws. When you pry open a paint can with it, you have committed metaphor, which is the second use of things, their will gone. As for us, since we don’t know what our purpose is, all we do is metaphori- cal.
and one more as a bonus. I remember this one whenever I hear the old city-vs-country argument.
What’s the difference between provincialism, which unthinkingly takes its situation for ev- eryone’s, and cosmopolitanism, which is con- fident it has the right to?
…all from James Richardson’s ‘Aphorisms’.