apophthegm
Example Sentences
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The talk went on to patriotism, and Johnson laid down an apophthegm, at "which many will start," many people, in fact, having little sense of humour.
From Samuel Johnson by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
Accordingly a proverb, in the nineteenth century, is a commonly known and frequently cited apophthegm.
The middle row, the first to be inscribed, deals with the Epicurean theory of atoms—not by apophthegm or aphorism, but with something of the fulness and technicality of a treatise.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
Dr. Johnson would have laboured this short apophthegm into a voluminous common-place.
From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney
In Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil there is an apophthegm to the effect that, "Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."
From A Poor Man's House by Reynolds, Stephen Sydney
