An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are …… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter. — Martial 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
“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“If a man has everything money can buy, yet woos you—with the complexity of a rose, the subtlety of poetry and prose… — Reena Doss Copy Share Image
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor." — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
