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
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
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
There is wisdom in the pithy saying of-a recent writer: "Much ill comes, not because men and women are married, but because they are fools."
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
