He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
|
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.
|
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
|
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
|
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
|
I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ
|
Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it . Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory , Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.
|
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
|
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
|