An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON GRAFFITI
In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the "haves."
Gilbert Adair (1944-, Writer, film critic and journalist)
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan (1941-, American musician, singer, songwriter)
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)
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