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    An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.

    Karl Kraus
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    An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

    Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
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    An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

    Minna Antrim
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  4. 4

    An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

    Oscar Levant
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    Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

    W. Somerset Maugham
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    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

    Jean Rostand
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    Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

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    Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

    Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
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    He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

    Oscar Wilde
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    In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.

    Friedrich Nietzsche
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    It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

    Susan Sontag
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    Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

    Earl of Chesterfield
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    Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

    F. H. Bradley
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    The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of eternity; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.

    Friedrich Nietzsche
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    There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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