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

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

But that graue auncient writer, Cornelius Tacitus, hath a wise, briefe, pithy saying, and it is this: "Nemo tentauit inquirere in columnas Herculis, sanctiúsque ac reuerentius habitum est de factis Deorum credere, quàm scire."

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Hakluyt, Richard

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 Van Dyke, Henry