Epigrams - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round, And whom both Poles of heaven ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14079<![CDATA[Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14080<![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14081<![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14082<![CDATA[Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14072<![CDATA[You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; in the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14073<![CDATA[And have you been able, Flaccus, to see the slender Thais? Then, Flaccus, I suspect you can see what is ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14074<![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14075<![CDATA[When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather; He ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14076<![CDATA[See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14077<![CDATA[Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself, and let him have your money. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14078<![CDATA[What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14055<![CDATA[Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie. Sweet boy, with ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14056<![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel In brilliancy in smallest space, And ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14057<![CDATA[This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14058<![CDATA[Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14059<![CDATA[You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14060<![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14061<![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14062<![CDATA[You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,-- who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14063<![CDATA["You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Choerilus, is indeed ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14064<![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is? 'Tis ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14065<![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14066<![CDATA[In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "How do you ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14067<![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14068<![CDATA[I could do without your face, and your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and your bosom, and other ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14069<![CDATA[Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had, Fabianus: would she were the friend of my wife! ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14070<![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14071