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| The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet |
| An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. | Edwin P. Whipple | 1819-1886, American Essayist |
| Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. | Francis H. Bradley | 1846-1924, British Philosopher |
| A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. | Fredrich | |
| In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. | Friedrich Schlegel | 1772-1829, German Philosopher, Critic, Writer |
| Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books. | John Morely | |
| To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. | John Updike | 1932-, American Novelist, Critic |
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| An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half. | Karl Kraus | 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist |
| A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. | Lionel Strachey | |
| An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. | Minna Antrim | 1861-18?, American Epigrammist |
| An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall. | Oscar Levant | 1906-1972, American Pianist, Actor |
| He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making. | Susan Sontag | 1933-, American Essayist |
| There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. | Vladimir Nabokov | 1899-1977, Russian-born American Novelist, Poet |
| Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. | W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright |
