Quotes of: Epigrams Keyword

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

Persian

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]

Epigrams, Volume III, Books 11-14.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

The Poems of John Donne; Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of

Dear family, I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

There are myriad kisses in a relationship: desperate ones as involuntary as breathing, stolen ones on crowded trains, ceremonial ones at the front door, routine ones as dispassionate as licking an envelope. It takes two to kiss, but does it take two ...

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Karl Kraus

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Friedrich Nietzsche

An epigram a day keeps the mind from going astray.

Time

words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.

Seamus Heaney

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

Delmore Schwartz

She remembered the way the damp, coarse sand had clumped to her legs and hands, and burrowed beneath her nails and into the folds of her clothes, and she had wondered why the British children in her storybooks were always excited about going to the b...

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

The day the earth-moving machines arrived, it was as if aliens had invaded Earth. Overnight they appeared, diggers with huge scoops, plodding their slow and ancient ways across the landscape. By the next week they had multiplied and evolved into dive...

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Don Marquis

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

W. Somerset Maugham

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.

Charles Williams

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

William Cowper

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.

Nicolas Chamfort