“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial 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
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a… — Hans Hofmann 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
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it… — Arthur Quiller-Couch 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
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the… — Edward Topsell Copy Share Image
“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
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
“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
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
