Epigram Quotes

Epigram Quote of the day

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.

I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.

As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.

Pak Karman hugged his wife’s gravestone tightly. “You left without saying farewell!” The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.

Rebecca woke up with her knees hurting and her fingers ice-cold, and the specifics of her life returned to her as the dream disappeared: weekend, hotel room, Baguio, memory, memory, memory.

Any moment now, I thought, he was going to wake up. Any moment.

She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn’t heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes.

Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing.

It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.

Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.

But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen’s clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as ourgame plan ever was—to make food that tasted good.

If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?

In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.

As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

In youth audacity is wise

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.

Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.