pithy saying

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He didn’t do it while unfurling a poster of an eagle soaring across a pithy saying — “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way,” for instance.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2019

Truly, the wise founder had a pithy saying for most, if not all, occasions.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

"Give me plenty of iron in the men, and I don't mind so much about iron in the ships," was a pithy saying of the American Admiral Farragut.

From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by Hale, John Richard

There is wisdom in the pithy saying of-a recent writer: "Much ill comes, not because men and women are married, but because they are fools."

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Aphorism, af′or-izm, n. a concise statement of a principle in any science: a brief, pithy saying: an adage.—v.t. and v.i.

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