apophthegm

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The middle row, the first to be inscribed, deals with the Epicurean theory of atoms—not by apophthegm or aphorism, but with something of the fulness and technicality of a treatise.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)

Faint heart never won fair lady, he said to himself, in some answering apophthegm.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various

Dr. Johnson would have laboured this short apophthegm into a voluminous common-place.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

Apophthegmat′ic, -al, pertaining to the nature of an apophthegm, pithy, sententious.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

A proverb is distinguished from a maxim or an apophthegm by that brevity which condenses a thought or a metaphor, where one thing is said and another is to be applied.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac