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An epigram is
a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at
itself.
-- Minna Antrim
1861-18?, American
Epigrammist
Our live
experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams.
Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
-- Francis H. Bradley
1846-1924, British
Philosopher
Most
maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness
of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused
myself to everything that my own experience did not justify
and confirm.
-- Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman,
Author
Exclusively of
the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of
our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and
best of men is but an aphorism.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet,
Critic, Philosopher
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An aphorism
can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a
truth-and-a-half.
-- Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist
An epigram is
only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
-- Oscar Levant
1906-1972, American Pianist,
Actor
He had a
wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it
portable.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay
1800-1859, American Essayist
and Historian
Anyone can
tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist,
Playwright
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