“The Box of Aphorisms” are sayings of different authors, selected by the compiler from collections, books, magazines and Internet resources, in particular the collections were used: “Fount of Wisdom: Aphorisms” (compiled by Tkacheva O.V., ABC, 2000), “God is not an angel: aphorisms” (compiled by K. Dushenko, EKSMO, 2000), “Thoughts, aphorisms and jokes of outstanding women” (compiled by K. Dushenko and G. Manchha, EKSMO, 2000), K. Dushenko “Aphoristikon or the most explanatory dictionary" (EXMO, 1999), "Everything in Science: Aphorisms" (EXMO, 2000), "2000 best aphorisms" (EXMO, 2000), Guberman I.M. “Favorites” (Rusich, 2002), Polyakov Yu.M. “Little goat in milk” (Rosman, 2003) Kruglov A. “Dictionary from A to Z”, etc., as well as sites: aphorism/,