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8 quotesAn aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Karl Kraus
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An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Minna Antrim
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Oscar Levant
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
W. Somerset Maugham
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Persian Proverb
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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Thomas B. Macaulay
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Oscar Wilde
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Vladimir Nabokov
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun