You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible.…

— Joseph P. Farrell

Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

— Joseph P. Farrell

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

— Oscar Wilde

Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth…

— Edward Topsell

“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture…

— Hans Hofmann

“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana