apophthegm
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Another perfect thing from this diverting piece, followed also by Homeric cachinnations, was the mock-serious apophthegm: "If a cloud is going to support a lady of substantial proportions, you must make it fairly solid."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various
That famous apophthegm leads us nearer to the saving truth.
From Nature Mysticism by John Edward Mercer
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 T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
Accordingly a proverb, in the nineteenth century, is a commonly known and frequently cited apophthegm.
In this passage the apophthegm is incorrectly attributed to Archidamus the Third, although the Peloponnesian war is mentioned in connexion with it.782.Thuc.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
