The article introduces a distinction to de-simplify the common view of aphoristic texts that produce a reading experience of apparent disproportion between the size of the text and its meaning.The question is how that reading effect is generated and what aphoristic techniques can be employed.The author believes a more complex awareness will lead not only to a finer critical sense of the genre, but also to an understanding of creative aphoristic techniques.The scope of the article is limited to several aphoristic texts, specifically ones that are read most frequently and definitely preferred in our current society.Two categories are coined for them: aphorisms with a closure effect and aphorisms with an opening effect.