Define the term 'epigram' with example.

An epigram of modern literature has come to mean a short,
clever and memorable statement. Epigrams began as short poems written in Greek. Though
in Greek literature, the epigram was not the one or two liners that they are today.
Epigrams can be both poetic as well as non- poetic in form. Now their use is usually a
way of saying something witty or paradoxical. The epigram also refers to very short
portions or a few sentences from longer pieces of work, which have come to be used often
as quotations. Some examples of epigrams are:

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What is an Epigram? A dwarfish
whole

Its body brevity, and wit its
soul.

— Samuel Taylor
Coleridge

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I can resist everything except
temptation

— Oscar
Wilde