aphorism

We must disabuse ourselves of this perhaps half-ironic but still telling aphorism.

He left the crowd with a Greek aphorism—“to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”

Thus my aphorism of the week: trying to contain damage only does more damage.

He defines Dynamic Inaction with one pithy aphorism: “When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.”

He utters the aphorism in immaculate French, and judging from an overheard phone call, his Italian is almost as good.

The well-worn aphorism of the Frenchman, “History repeats itself,” was about to assert itself.

Part of the first aphorism of Hippocrates is—Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή.

"Hit's the pore house fer a cow hand," was his terse aphorism on the subject, and Landy had never seen a "fitten" poor house.

Paragraphs sometimes close with a shorter statement of the proposition, a sort of aphorism or epigram.

For each or either of these extra-scriptural Articles of Faith the preceding Aphorism supplies a safe criterion.