Associations to the word «Epigram»

Wiktionary

EPIGRAM, noun. (obsolete) An inscription in stone.
EPIGRAM, noun. A brief but witty saying.
EPIGRAM, noun. A short, witty or pithy poem.

Dictionary definition

EPIGRAM, noun. A witty saying.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope