Delight Quote by Michael R. Burch Download Open image “Epigrams delight us into wisdom.” — Michael R. Burch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delight Epigrams
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. — Minna Antrim 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
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hell hath no fury like a frustrated fundamentalist whose God condemned him to "hell" for having "impure thoughts." — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
Rand Paul tried hard to upstage Donald Trump at the first debate, talking tough about his guns and his right not to register them.… — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
If every witty thing that's said was true, Oscar Wilde, the world would worship You! — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
Donald Trump isn't really running for president, come on! This is obviously a new reality show, Celebrity Presidential Apprentice. It ends with the incompetent… — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
Donald Trump really is a fan of the Bible, except that it's far too long for him to read. So he just released a… — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
Trump has officially changed his name to Ronald because he's such a clown, and in sympathy his toupée is changing its name to Bozo. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
When I was being bullied, I had to learn not to judge myself by the opinions of intolerant morons. Then I felt much better. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
Donald Trump accused Huma Abedin of sharing state secrets with her husband. I think Trump clearly lacks a sense of Huma. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open… — Aaron Betsky Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
