“An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.”
Oscar Levant
“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker
“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys”
William Arthur Ward
“They're doing fine whether I'm doing it or not. Maybe it doesn't have as many wisecracks.”
Vince Gill
“An epigrams is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall”
“If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to try an epigram,/ I never seek to take the credit;/ We all assume that Oscar said it.”
“An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting”
William Cowper
