Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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.
Brazil is a country largely resistant to ideology. This is a strange fact given its founding by followers of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, who inscribed an epigram from his philosophy of positivism in the national flag: Order and Progress.
