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

A proverb is defined in one of the more popular dictionaries of our language as "a brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience."

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

"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

Mr. Disraeli perhaps consoled himself by the pithy saying of Baron Brunnow, that if no one made any blunders, there would be no politics.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John