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«Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.»
Author: Francis Herbert Bradley | Keywords: aphorisms, epigrams, in cold blood, stiffen, stiffened, stiffening
«It is less artificial than his other comedies. The epigrams do not seem to have been added on like candied cherries on a cake.»
Author: Ted Morgan | Keywords: candied, comedies, epigrams
«An epigrams is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall»
Author: Oscar Levant (Actor, Composer, Pianist) | Keywords: Carnegie, Carnegie Hall, epigrams, gag
«The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson (Ambassador, Governor, Politician) | Keywords: epigrams, platitudes, purr, Purring, purrs, stroke
«EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom:We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration.In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.There are three sexes; males, females and girls.Beauty in women and distinction in men are alike in this: they seem to be the unthinking a kind of credibility.Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: acerbity, acidity, administration, affectionately, characterize, credibility, diversity, Dr., Dr, Economy of, epigram, epigrams, females, nightingale, nightingales, notable, notables, pig, prose, safe sex, sexes, unequal, unthinking, verse
«Three things must epigrams, like bees have all - A sting and honey and a body small»
Author: Latin Proverb | Keywords: bees, bee sting, epigrams, honey, sting
«'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: epigrams, nicely
«France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: despotism, epigrams, tempered
«Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams»
Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | Keywords: epigrams
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