Epigrams Quote by Minna Antrim Download Open image “An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.” — Minna Antrim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epigrams Flashlights Laughing Laughter Truth
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
“He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.” — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“If you want special illumination, look upon the human face: See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has Happened To… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial Copy Share Image
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
Women are angry if other women think too little of their lovers, and furious if they think too much. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what you now do not know — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. — Minna Antrim 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
