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#epigram

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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.


F. H. Bradley


#cold #dull #epigrams #experiences #fixed

[On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.


Dorothy Parker


#epigrams #humor #oscar-wilde #tribute #wit

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.


Oscar Wilde


#humour #mythology #men

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.


Charlotte Perkins Gilman


#amount #any #audiences #better #epigram

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.


George Harrison


#epigram #philosophy #tea

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.


Oscar Wilde


#irony #life

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.


Nicolas Chamfort


#cherries #choose #collections #eating #end

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.


William Cowper


#feeble #sting #straw #stuck #tail

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.


Karl Kraus


#epigram #feminine #masculine #passion

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.


Oscar Wilde


#paradox #truth #wisdom #age






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