apothegm
Example Sentences
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On Saturday, Broner apologized for his language, invoking an apothegm of his own invention.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2015
He was an apothegm slinger; he was unstoppable.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2012
The Philip Green approach, "done and dusted, back to the beach", is not their style, any more than his apothegm: "I want to make a profit, not be a prophet."
From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2010
In fact, the Chinese seem to have taken Mao's apothegm, "Let the past serve the present," with a literalness that Western archaeologists�hampered as they are by the depredations of the antiquity market�might envy.
From Time Magazine Archive
I feel that it is safe to leave my readers to make the application of this apothegm to the Shakespearean annotators of their acquaintance, so few of whom are wise, so many otherwise.
From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
