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Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma  (Epigram Quotes) Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one  (Epigram Quotes) A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball  (Epigram Quotes) I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram  (Epigram Quotes) A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling  (Epigram Quotes) Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram  (Epigram Quotes) An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself  (Epigram Quotes) All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram  (Epigram Quotes) An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce  (Epigram Quotes) He misses what is meant by epigram Who thinks it only frivolous flim flam  (Epigram Quotes) An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly  (Epigram Quotes) Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity  (Epigram Quotes) Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice  (Epigram Quotes) What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul  (Epigram Quotes) What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul  (Epigram Quotes) Nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.  (Epigram Quotes) There’s an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.  (Epigram Quotes) Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.  (Epigram Quotes) The qualities all in a bee that we meet, in an epigram never should fail; the body should always be little and sweet, and a sting should be felt in its tail  (Epigram Quotes) The diamond’s virtues well might grace the epigram, and both excel In brilliancy in smallest space, and power to cut as well  (Epigram Quotes) It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence  (Epigram Quotes) I don’t see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ  (Epigram Quotes) He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone  (Epigram Quotes) A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness  (Epigram Quotes) To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given  (Epigram Quotes) Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all  (Epigram Quotes) Nothing is so pleasant... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs  (Epigram Quotes) The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance  (Epigram Quotes) The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit  (Epigram Quotes) In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma  (Epigram Quotes)
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