Top 8 Epigrams Quotes - Quoted Daily

Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.

Lively, Epigrams

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

Truth, Epigrams

Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

Fit, Epigrams

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.

Periods, Poetry Is, Epigrams

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

Blue, Introduction, Epigrams

William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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

Phrases, Existence, Epigrams

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

Epigrams delight us into wisdom.

Delight, Epigrams

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.

Needs, Tongue, Epigrams

Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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