Best Epigram Quotes
- A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. — Oscar Wilde
- I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of… — Oscar Wilde
- It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a… — Soren Kierkegaard
- Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's… — George Santayana
- What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon
- The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm and epigram — Edwin P Whipple
- EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the… — Ambrose Bierce
- A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness — John Andrew Holmes