#epigram

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

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

#courage

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. ↗

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#epigram #every #somewhere #world

I prefer a huge tome to a sharp epigram: only blunt words can hurt dull people ↗

— Bauvard

#epigrams #funny #humor #funny

The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#epigram #humor #humor

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#epigram #tabloid-journalism #wisdom #wisdom

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes