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Favorite Epigrams?

Burdette Lamar on February 13, 2019

Two of my favorite epigrams: In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is. -- Jan L. A. van de Snepsc...
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Jason R Tibbetts

Quem recitas meus est, o Fidentine, libellus:
Sed male cum recitas, incipit esse tuus.

"The book you're reading, Fidentinus, is mine,
But when you read it that poorly, it becomes yours."

-- Martial, Epigram I.XXXVIII, ca. 81 AD

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Andrew (he/him)

The future ain't what it used to be. -- Yogi Berra