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An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Minna Antrim

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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Proverbs
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Humor
Fredrich

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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Oscar Levant

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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
W. Somerset Maugham

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Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Persian Proverb

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The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
Platitudes
Adlai E. Stevenson

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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Humor
Lionel Strachey

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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Reason
Edwin P. Whipple

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Oscar Wilde

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun