| It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs. |
| The only author the two seem to share in common is Oscar Wilde, hurling his various art-for-art's-sake epigrams at each other like barbs. |
| For him, the centrepieces of conversation were aphorisms, epigrams and paradoxes which seemed to trip effortlessly from his honeyed tongue. |
| Combined with his epigrams, the carefully selected images become poor monuments, an aid to critical remembering. |
| This was one of the reasons that people spent more time making up pithy aphorisms and witty epigrams. |
| He worked in government service, but was expelled from St Petersburg in 1820 for writing revolutionary epigrams. |
