Brevity is the key.
It originally read, Count not they chickens that unhatched be…
Check it out.
Sandys said, Honestie the best policie, which in modern English is…
That’s not what you expected, was it.
The original saying was, Eat an apple on going to bed, and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.
As they say, Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
An aphorism is a literary device that uses a short, clever saying to express a general truth.
Repeat after me.
Better safe than sorry is a piece of wisdom from Samuel Lover’s book, Rory O’More.
The idea is simple.
Have you ever felt frustrated when other people didn’t meet your expectations.
One of his most notable is, An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
But these days.
But there’s no certain magic to sprinkling aphorisms into your writing.
But not today.
