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 T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
Culture, criticism, in certain sterile natures, are like Sheridan's famous apophthegm: they lie "like lumps of marl on a barren moor, encumbering what it is not in their power to fertilise."
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
To collect and arrange facts is, as he tells us, the sole secret of his success, and he adds in other words the famous apophthegm of Newton, “hypotheses non fingo.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
Later he delivered himself of the unstatesmanlike and unworthy apophthegm: "Better be united in support of a short-sighted and foolish policy than divided in support of a far-sighted and wise one."
From Ireland Since Parnell by D. D. (Daniel Desmond) Sheehan
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 Alfred Rayney Waller
