#epigrams

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

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

— Bauvard

#epigrams #funny #humor #funny

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

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient. ↗

— Charles Williams

#epigrams #god #high #indeed #intelligence

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#epigrams #few #make #only #tell

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

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#irony #life