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An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
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Karl Kraus
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An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
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Minna Antrim
Minna Antrim books
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant books
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham books
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
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Persian Proverb
Persian Proverb books
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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
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Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas B. Macaulay books
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde books
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov books
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