EPIGRAM

n. 1 witticism, bon mot, quip, mot, turn of phrase, jeu d'esprit, Atticism; pun, double entendre, jeu de mots, play on words, equivoque; paronomasia His epigram characterizing Eskimos as 'God's frozen people' was widely quoted 2 proverb, aphorism, maxim, saw, saying, adage, apophthegm or apothegm 'Nothing succeeds like success' is his favourite epigram