1.
Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.
Helen Rowland
2.
You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
Norman Douglas
3.
Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.
Joseph P. Farrell
4.
My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.
Ernesto Cardenal
6.
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
Oscar Wilde
7.
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
Martial
8.
I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
William James