Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
It is less artificial than his other comedies. The epigrams do not seem to have been added on like candied cherries on a cake.
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.
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.
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