Словарь синонимов английского языка - epigram

(n) 1. witticism, bon mot, quip, mot, turn of phrase, jeu d'esprit, Atticism; pun, double entendre, jeu de mots, play on gords, 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.