Epigrams Quotes

'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard. - Marcus Aurelius

Three things must epigrams, like bees have all - A sting and honey and a body small. - Latin Proverb

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

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. - Marcus Aurelius

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient. - Charles Williams

It is less artificial than his other comedies. The epigrams do not seem to have been added on like candied cherries on a cake. - Ted Morgan

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

Epigrams succeed where epics fail. - Persian Proverb

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