apophthegm

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Another perfect thing from this diverting piece, followed also by Homeric cachinnations, was the mock-serious apophthegm: "If a cloud is going to support a lady of substantial proportions, you must make it fairly solid."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various

They made apophthegm take the place of message.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis

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

The apophthegm of the Doge might have been pertinently applied to Louis XVIII. by the people.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

That famous apophthegm leads us nearer to the saving truth.

From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward