Epigram and its example.
Epigrams is a figure of speech wherein short remarks are used to convey a brief message in a sharp or witty manner. It is a brief, witty statement about a topic.
For examples:
1) I'm starting with the man in the mirror.
2) If we don't end war, war will end us.
3) Little strokes fell great oaks.
4) The best thing to hold on to in life is each other.
5) Blessed are the peacemakers.
6) An unbending tree is easily broken.
7) Little sparks ignite great flames.
8) Live simply, so that others may simply live.
9) Fresh tears are wasted on old griefs.
10) It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
11) If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
12) Fools rush on where angels fear to thread.
13) An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
14) I am not young enough to know everything.
15) No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
16) To err is human, but it feels divine.
17) He does not believe, who does not live according to his belief.
18) Not to speak one’s mind is slavery.
19) It is a strange desire to seek power and to loose liberty.
20) In the midst of life, we are in death.
21) No wind is favorable to the man who lacks direction.
22) Raise your words, not their volume. Rain grows flowers, not thunder.
23) Art lies in concealing art.
24) Winners never quit and Quitters never win.
25) He makes no friend, who never makes a foe.
26) Sweet are uses of adversity.
27) They also serve who only stand and wait.
28) There is a pleasure in poetic pains.
29) Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
30) One true friend is worth ten thousand kin.
31) You can crop all the flowers but you cannot detain spring.
32) Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
33) Once is never. Twice is always.
34) The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
35) There is no gains without pains.
36) I find it hard to be the cool guy.
37) In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
38) To err is human, to forgive, divine.
39) Early bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
40) No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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