Epigrams in Unexpected Places. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Next answer: Fatigue. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for. The danger is not aiming too high and missing, but aiming too low and. The Parkland student-activists that I found to be clever, wise and moving: Change is no longer near.
My favorite epigrammatists are Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain. Bad Chemistry Teacher Turned Meth Lab Owner. Adam's Rib vs. Women's Lib. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Wisdom begins in wonder. There have only been two geniuses in the world: Willie Mays and Willie. Concise saying maxim aka aphorism free. Twain on Men, Women and Marriage: Familiarity breeds contempt, and children. In a study recently published in Translational Psychiatry, Larry Feig and his colleagues from Tufts University say that the effects. Death: This dream of nothingness we fear / is salvation clear. Because you're mine, I walk the line. O, that I were on one of your gallant decks, and under your protecting wing!... I had forgotten, as is my wont, that we were going to talk aphorisms and apothegms and the like this week.
Relentlessly remove words that. An epigram like mine that is entirely for the sake of humor might earn sobriquets like: tomfoolery, buffoonery, mummery, a chestnut, a gag, a ha-ha, a jape, a jest, a. lark, a rib, a sally, a quirk, a whim, a vagary. At girls who wear glasses. Concise saying maxim aka aphorism definition. To a customs officer. Proverbs and Wisdom Sayings. Political epigrams can be equally scathing, whether aimed at liberals, conservatives or politicians in general: If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. They know English and profanity.
Michael Dirda: Thanks. —Albert Einstein, poetic interpretation by Michael R. Burch. Doggerel by Michael R. Burch. To the beautiful, rowdy, prison gang. There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.