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- Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best… — Nicolas Chamfort
- What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall. — Oscar Levant
- To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch,… — John Updike
- The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the… — Vissarion Belinsky
- No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C.S. Lewis
- Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- 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
- An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half. — Shailer Mathews
- EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce
- 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
- PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is… — Ambrose Bierce