❝Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.❞
— Martin Fischer, German-American physician, born #onthisday 🌟10 Nov 1879.
Read over a hundred of his insightful epigrams and #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fischer_Ma...
— Martin Fischer, German-American physician, born #onthisday 🌟10 Nov 1879.
Read over a hundred of his insightful epigrams and #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fischer_Ma...
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
❝Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.❞
— Martin Fischer, German-American physician, born #onthisday 🌟10 Nov 1879.
Read over a hundred of his insightful epigrams and #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fischer_Ma...
— Martin Fischer, German-American physician, born #onthisday 🌟10 Nov 1879.
Read over a hundred of his insightful epigrams and #quotes at todayinsci.com/F/Fischer_Ma...
Illustration of Simaetha in Theocritus' Idyll 2, from H.A. Metcalf’s The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus (1905)
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November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Illustration of Simaetha in Theocritus' Idyll 2, from H.A. Metcalf’s The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus (1905)
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This magnificent old print from 1535 contains Martialis's epigrams in 14 books, published by Sebastian Gryphius at one of the most famous publishing houses of the first half of the 16th century.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This magnificent old print from 1535 contains Martialis's epigrams in 14 books, published by Sebastian Gryphius at one of the most famous publishing houses of the first half of the 16th century.
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#Bookvember Day 5
I had to wait on this one to visit my parents. This book was THE poetry book for me and my sisters. Huge, well loved illustrated hardback. Lovely mix of great poems. I liked the limericks, epigrams and other funny ones the most.
I had to wait on this one to visit my parents. This book was THE poetry book for me and my sisters. Huge, well loved illustrated hardback. Lovely mix of great poems. I liked the limericks, epigrams and other funny ones the most.
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
#Bookvember Day 5
I had to wait on this one to visit my parents. This book was THE poetry book for me and my sisters. Huge, well loved illustrated hardback. Lovely mix of great poems. I liked the limericks, epigrams and other funny ones the most.
I had to wait on this one to visit my parents. This book was THE poetry book for me and my sisters. Huge, well loved illustrated hardback. Lovely mix of great poems. I liked the limericks, epigrams and other funny ones the most.
"Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
John Harrington, Epigrams: Of Treason, 1618
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
John Harrington, Epigrams: Of Treason, 1618
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
John Harrington, Epigrams: Of Treason, 1618
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
John Harrington, Epigrams: Of Treason, 1618
My senior year of high school, my Ancient Greek teacher brought out the epigrams volume in the Loeb classical library for the third-year students to read. The really dirty stuff wasn't translated into English, but rendered in Latin. We learned a ton of Latin that year on top of the Greek!
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
My senior year of high school, my Ancient Greek teacher brought out the epigrams volume in the Loeb classical library for the third-year students to read. The really dirty stuff wasn't translated into English, but rendered in Latin. We learned a ton of Latin that year on top of the Greek!
Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They’re epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, captions, slogans, and adages. Some are art, some are commercial; these are forms with integrity.
November 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They’re epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, captions, slogans, and adages. Some are art, some are commercial; these are forms with integrity.
She had no more than an 8th grade education & hadn’t traveled beyond Chicago. yet produced approximately 4 million words, including seven books, some short stories, several plays, thousands of poems, and countless epigrams and aphorisms whitecrowbooks.com/2025/11/was-...
Was Patience Worth a Group Soul?
Over some 24 years, from 1913 until 1937, an author by the name of Patience [...]
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November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
She had no more than an 8th grade education & hadn’t traveled beyond Chicago. yet produced approximately 4 million words, including seven books, some short stories, several plays, thousands of poems, and countless epigrams and aphorisms whitecrowbooks.com/2025/11/was-...
I'd want it just to have it on my bookshelf! It would be nice just to have it there!
But also, his little epigrams/anecdotes at the start of each chapter are great.
I am horrified by his TeX; glad I'll never have to use it.
But my Desert Islands Discs book will be Chap 3: Sorting & Searching.
But also, his little epigrams/anecdotes at the start of each chapter are great.
I am horrified by his TeX; glad I'll never have to use it.
But my Desert Islands Discs book will be Chap 3: Sorting & Searching.
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I'd want it just to have it on my bookshelf! It would be nice just to have it there!
But also, his little epigrams/anecdotes at the start of each chapter are great.
I am horrified by his TeX; glad I'll never have to use it.
But my Desert Islands Discs book will be Chap 3: Sorting & Searching.
But also, his little epigrams/anecdotes at the start of each chapter are great.
I am horrified by his TeX; glad I'll never have to use it.
But my Desert Islands Discs book will be Chap 3: Sorting & Searching.
/…Le Lutrin: humorous epic about church lectern, showing Boileau’s playful side
Odes, epigrams, & other poems
Critical reflections & translation of Longinus’s On the Sublime - key ancient text on powerful writing
1707 edition was one of last published in Boileau’s lifetime…/
Odes, epigrams, & other poems
Critical reflections & translation of Longinus’s On the Sublime - key ancient text on powerful writing
1707 edition was one of last published in Boileau’s lifetime…/
November 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
/…Le Lutrin: humorous epic about church lectern, showing Boileau’s playful side
Odes, epigrams, & other poems
Critical reflections & translation of Longinus’s On the Sublime - key ancient text on powerful writing
1707 edition was one of last published in Boileau’s lifetime…/
Odes, epigrams, & other poems
Critical reflections & translation of Longinus’s On the Sublime - key ancient text on powerful writing
1707 edition was one of last published in Boileau’s lifetime…/
BBC Radio 3 Unwind
Mindful Mix: Unwind with flowing classical sounds
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Kodály Zoltán
Epigrammák (Epigrams): No. 6, Andantino
Mindful Mix: Unwind with flowing classical sounds
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Epigrammák (Epigrams): No. 6, Andantino
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
BBC Radio 3 Unwind
Mindful Mix: Unwind with flowing classical sounds
Now Playing
Kodály Zoltán
Epigrammák (Epigrams): No. 6, Andantino
Mindful Mix: Unwind with flowing classical sounds
Now Playing
Kodály Zoltán
Epigrammák (Epigrams): No. 6, Andantino
It is at least passably good history and the performances aren't just imitations. The glasses help with Godard obv., but tossing off gnomic epigrams is what he did, and Zoey Deutch as Seberg owns the film with pure charisma and inhabits perfect mix of frustration and fascination.
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It is at least passably good history and the performances aren't just imitations. The glasses help with Godard obv., but tossing off gnomic epigrams is what he did, and Zoey Deutch as Seberg owns the film with pure charisma and inhabits perfect mix of frustration and fascination.
I couldn’t post in the thread, so quote time! 💫
October 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I couldn’t post in the thread, so quote time! 💫
Often I read the notes of a book before reading the text itself so I can go to the additional sources later. I'm left-handed, what can I say...
The brilliant Federico Finchelstein uses these quotes as epigrams in his "A Brief History of Fascist Lies."
Highly recommend.
The brilliant Federico Finchelstein uses these quotes as epigrams in his "A Brief History of Fascist Lies."
Highly recommend.
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Often I read the notes of a book before reading the text itself so I can go to the additional sources later. I'm left-handed, what can I say...
The brilliant Federico Finchelstein uses these quotes as epigrams in his "A Brief History of Fascist Lies."
Highly recommend.
The brilliant Federico Finchelstein uses these quotes as epigrams in his "A Brief History of Fascist Lies."
Highly recommend.
#CatchThePhrase #MusicChallenge | 84
An almost daily catchphrase, quote, or meme to inspire or entertain you:
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." — Banksy
No rules. Just for fun.
An almost daily catchphrase, quote, or meme to inspire or entertain you:
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." — Banksy
No rules. Just for fun.
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
#CatchThePhrase #MusicChallenge | 84
An almost daily catchphrase, quote, or meme to inspire or entertain you:
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." — Banksy
No rules. Just for fun.
An almost daily catchphrase, quote, or meme to inspire or entertain you:
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." — Banksy
No rules. Just for fun.
If Jane were on Bluesky, she'd be posting devastating burns on the alt and would be doing fun epigrams on main.
October 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If Jane were on Bluesky, she'd be posting devastating burns on the alt and would be doing fun epigrams on main.
Taking its stylistic cues from the movement, Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ charts the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Breathless’. Newcomer Guillaume Marbeck is an uncanny Godard, given to dispensing epigrams, but brittle & uncertain too, & pic fizzes with that era’s playfulness & mischief
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Taking its stylistic cues from the movement, Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ charts the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Breathless’. Newcomer Guillaume Marbeck is an uncanny Godard, given to dispensing epigrams, but brittle & uncertain too, & pic fizzes with that era’s playfulness & mischief
... and his flamboyant personality and famous epigrams. His career was also famously cut short by his imprisonment for homosexuality in 1895, an event that led to his death in poverty in 1900 at the age of 46.
#RIP #OscarWilde
#RIP #OscarWilde
October 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
... and his flamboyant personality and famous epigrams. His career was also famously cut short by his imprisonment for homosexuality in 1895, an event that led to his death in poverty in 1900 at the age of 46.
#RIP #OscarWilde
#RIP #OscarWilde
(2/3) Oscar Wilde is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his imprisonment and death. While The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for criminal libel.
October 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
(2/3) Oscar Wilde is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his imprisonment and death. While The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for criminal libel.
So exciting !! I have daydreamed about tackling a Martial 'Steadman' some day and so glad to see one out! (of course maybe some day I or others will tackle more of his massive corpus, but 140 epigrams is amazing!)
Bit of self-promotion: I have published a commentary on a selection of Martial's epigrams, so if you are a Latin teacher/instructor...or a fan of having Latin grammar and rhetorical devices analyzed...feel free to check it out.
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Where A Poet Might Rome: The Eternal City of Martial's Epigrams: Smith, Christopher: 9798269037523: Amazon.com: Books
Where A Poet Might Rome: The Eternal City of Martial's Epigrams [Smith, Christopher] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Where A Poet Might Rome: The Eternal City of Martial's Epigram...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
So exciting !! I have daydreamed about tackling a Martial 'Steadman' some day and so glad to see one out! (of course maybe some day I or others will tackle more of his massive corpus, but 140 epigrams is amazing!)
Bit of self-promotion: I have published a commentary on a selection of Martial's epigrams, so if you are a Latin teacher/instructor...or a fan of having Latin grammar and rhetorical devices analyzed...feel free to check it out.
a.co/d/e1FBrHH
a.co/d/e1FBrHH
Where A Poet Might Rome: The Eternal City of Martial's Epigrams: Smith, Christopher: 9798269037523: Amazon.com: Books
Where A Poet Might Rome: The Eternal City of Martial's Epigrams [Smith, Christopher] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Where A Poet Might Rome: The Eternal City of Martial's Epigram...
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October 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Bit of self-promotion: I have published a commentary on a selection of Martial's epigrams, so if you are a Latin teacher/instructor...or a fan of having Latin grammar and rhetorical devices analyzed...feel free to check it out.
a.co/d/e1FBrHH
a.co/d/e1FBrHH
Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They’re epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, captions, slogans, and adages. Some are art, some are commercial; these are forms with integrity.
October 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They’re epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, captions, slogans, and adages. Some are art, some are commercial; these are forms with integrity.
"We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem."
— Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
— Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
October 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem."
— Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
— Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
Interesting new, open access article in Greece & Rome blends epigraphy, poetry on stone (Greek epigrams), and tracing ethnicity:
“Dying Greek in Rome: Greek Funerary Epigrams from Imperial Rome” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I love this: ‘κάλλος δ’ αὖ μετὰ μοῖραν Ἀμαζόνος ἔσχεν ἄπιστον’
“Dying Greek in Rome: Greek Funerary Epigrams from Imperial Rome” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I love this: ‘κάλλος δ’ αὖ μετὰ μοῖραν Ἀμαζόνος ἔσχεν ἄπιστον’
October 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Interesting new, open access article in Greece & Rome blends epigraphy, poetry on stone (Greek epigrams), and tracing ethnicity:
“Dying Greek in Rome: Greek Funerary Epigrams from Imperial Rome” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I love this: ‘κάλλος δ’ αὖ μετὰ μοῖραν Ἀμαζόνος ἔσχεν ἄπιστον’
“Dying Greek in Rome: Greek Funerary Epigrams from Imperial Rome” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I love this: ‘κάλλος δ’ αὖ μετὰ μοῖραν Ἀμαζόνος ἔσχεν ἄπιστον’
