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

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic. Perlis 1982 — Alan J. Perlis

The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Education gives you the power to think rationally, think better, and be productive in every act. — Debasish Mridha

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams. — Thomas Carlyle

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both. — Neel Burton

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning. — Karl Lagerfeld

Every day is a dance deed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter. — Martial

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams. — Oscar Wilde

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

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

After ... all the philosophy and science that we've laboured on for centuries, it's becoming very hard to find a story we can buy. — Steve Hagen

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette. — Bill Blass

Epigrams delight us into wisdom. — Michael R. Burch

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. — Ernesto Cardenal

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

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — F.H. Bradley

We aren't going to let our first investment be the best. — Dan Levitan

Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one. — Helen Rowland

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime. — Jodi Picoult

Too many seek to become epic, but settle for epigrams. — Thomas F. Shubnell

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied
with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial

People tell me I shouldn't smoke because it is makes you look like a tit. I use exactly the same argument when people tell me they go to the gym. — Robert Clark

I will now sing another song for your pleasure. Now, if you like Phil Collins ... you should be shot in the head. — Robert Clark

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

Had she allowed the flame to burn so low it was now in danger of complete extinction? — Paul Russell