Epigrams Quote by Helen Rowland Download Open image “Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.” — Helen Rowland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epigrams Lively
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting. — William Cowper 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
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial Copy Share Image
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram;… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death. — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
“The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those he didn't commit when he had the opportunity".” — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. — Helen Rowland 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 best.” — 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, and human… — 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 from the… — 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 repetition in… — 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 effervescent chemical… — 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 the characters… — 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 being or… — 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 small picture… — 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 to be… — 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 had to… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
