Aphorism Word Puzzles

An aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a concise and memorable form. Aphorism literally means a "distinction" or "definition". The term was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The oft-cited first sentence of this work is: "Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult."The term was later applied to maxims of physical science, then statements of all kinds of philosophical, moral, or literary principles. In modern usage...
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An aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a concise and memorable form. Aphorism literally means a "distinction" or "definition". The term was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The oft-cited first sentence of this work is: "Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult."The term was later applied to maxims of physical science, then statements of all kinds of philosophical, moral, or literary principles. In modern usage an aphorism is generally understood to be a concise statement containing a subjective truth or observation cleverly and pithily written.Fallen-letter is a variant of scrambled-word. With fallen-letter, the message to be recovered is housed in an Excel-like worksheet with one letter per cell. The letters in each column are extracted from the worksheet and shown separately. The sequence in which these letters appear has also been randomized. It is as if the letters have fallen from the worksheet.This fallen-letter puzzle book uses popular aphorisms as messages.