Poetic Epigrams
- What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole;
- Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Some can gaze and not be sick
- But I could never learn the trick.
- There's this to say for blood and breath;
- They give a man a taste for death.
- — A. E. Housman
- Little strokes
- Fell great oaks.
- — Benjamin Franklin
- Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
- Now she's at rest – and so am I.
- — John Dryden
- I am His Highness' dog at Kew;
- Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
- — Alexander Pope
- I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
- But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
- — Hilaire Belloc
- I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
- — Nikos Kazantzakis
- To define the beautiful is to misunderstand it.
- — Charles Robert Anon (Fernando Pessoa)
- To be safe on the Fourth,
- Don't buy a fifth on the third.
- — James H Muehlbauer
- This Humanist whom no belief constrained
- Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.
- — J.V. Cunningham
- All things pass
- Love and mankind is grass.
- — Stevie Smith
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