A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.545^60.

A golfcourse isthe epitome of all that ispurely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quicklyas possible.

-Giraudoux, (Hippolyte) Jean
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

He was something between an epitome and a parody.

-Isaacson,Walter Seff
 On Harvard Professor William Elliott, Kissinger's mentor. Kissinger:  A Biography.