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
I think it would have been pleasant to know a man who could sum up his reflections upon the important question of berries in such a pithy saying as that which Walton repeats.
From Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things by Henry Van Dyke
"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 John Richard Hale
The French have a clever and pithy saying, that of—"On peut tout dire à un grand peuple."
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
