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«The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm and epigram»
Author: Edwin P. Whipple | About: Morality, Wisdom | Keywords: apothegm, Apothegms, epigram, skiff
«Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma»
Author: Hendrik Willem Van Loon | Keywords: dilemma, dilemmas, epigram, For every
«The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.»
Author: Don Marquis (Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: epigram, paragraphing, paragraphs, platitude, purr, Purring, purrs, stroke
«To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given»
Author: John Updike | About: War, World | Keywords: arrangements, epigram, eunuch, provocative, standpoint, stateless
«PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: cackle, cackles, cackling, desiccated, desiccates, diction, dullard, dullards, epigram, fable, featherless, fossil, fossils, jellies, mortality, snore, snores, snoring, surviving, tasse, the pope, withering
«Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice»
Author: James Russell Lowell (Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: epigram
«What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Critic, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: brevity, dwarfish, epigram
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