“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ. — William James Copy Share Image
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“ [On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit;… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is… — Joseph P. Farrell Copy Share Image
“The mass of the people regard as profound only him who suggests pungent contradictions of the general idea. In ratiocination, not less… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon Copy Share Image
“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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