An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. — Minna Antrim 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
“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“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
If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that… — Dorothy Parker 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
“More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months… — 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
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
“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not… — 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
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
In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half. — Shailer Mathews 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
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“None of us is less fragile than the other; we simply shatter in different places.” — Sheldon James Martin Copy Share Image
“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial Copy Share Image
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Experience is a harsh teacher but its lessons get tattooed into scars under our skin. Adversity is a master at disguises.” — Reena Doss Copy Share Image
A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? — William Shakespeare 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
“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
