An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
I've grown tired of people impersonating world-weary cynics by intoning the old saying 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' as if it were a new-minted witticism.
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.
One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.
If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
