Sentences with phrase «epigram known»
In his 1988 Annual Letter to Shareholders, the human epigram known as Warren Buffett gave what would become his most famous quote, «[W] hen we own portions of -LSB-...]
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In the constant sociability of our age people shudder at solitude to such a degree that they know no other use to put it to but (oh, admirable epigram!)
He writes, as always, with magisterial command of all possible sources in all known languages and a gift for the occasional elegant epigram derived in part, I suspect, from a lifetime of reading Edward Gibbon for fun.
The editors employ an epigram from Max Weber: «The early Christians knew full well the world is governed by demons and that he who lets himself in for politics, that is, for power and force as means, contracts with diabolical powers and for his action it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
I know that my books of epigrams will never be a mass - market product.
Lawler's well - known epigram, A Picture is No Substitute for Anything, which she titled a joint show with fellow artist Sherrie Levine, seems to fold Ivins's two ideas into a single, enigmatic utterance.