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 ransacked all my classics, and met with many a wise and pithy saying, but not one pleased me.
From My New Curate by Sheehan, Patrick Augustine
Proverb.—A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience; a familiar and widely known popular saying in epigrammatic form.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward
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
