Epigram

According to my Reference Handbook of Grammar & Usage (seen here), an epigram [ep-i-gram] is "a short, pointed, often witty statement of fact or opinion, either in verse or prose.  Such statements are useful for focusing attention on a particular idea, making it easy to remember and to quote."

Here are a few well-known epigrams:

Little strokes

Fell great oaks.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I can resist everything except temptation.

~ Oscar Wilde

What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole;

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

To be or not to be, that is the question.

~ Shakespeare

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction.

Fiction has to make sense.

~ Mark Twain

Do you have some favorite epigrams?  Maybe you'd like to try writing one?  If you do, please share -- I'd love to see them!