apophthegm

They have been called stories but could equally be miniatures, anecdotes, essays, jokes, parables, fables, texts, aphorisms or even apophthegms, prayers or simply observations.”

I still require the texture of the pages and enjoy underlining clever apophthegms.

I should prefer to reverse the apophthegm, and to say that in life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter.

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.

The results of these new reflections grew into fixed rules, into proverbs and apophthegms.