Epigram Quotations

Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm and epigram

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, with a hang noose at the end

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness

He misses what is meant by epigram - who thinks it only frivolous flimflam

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly

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