Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Epigrams delight us into wisdom.
Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.
You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.
My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.