apophthegm

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Faint heart never won fair lady, he said to himself, in some answering apophthegm.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various

To collect and arrange facts is, as he tells us, the sole secret of his success, and he adds in other words the famous apophthegm of Newton, “hypotheses non fingo.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

Apophthegmat′ic, -al, pertaining to the nature of an apophthegm, pithy, sententious.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Between a maxim, an aphorism, and an apophthegm, and in a more obvious degree, between these and an adage and a proverb, the etymologist and the lexicographer may easily find a distinction.

From Maxims and Reflections by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

But after nigh six months of palpitating negotiations with the adorable Mrs. Glamorys, the poet, in a moment of dejection, penned the prose apophthegm, 'It is of no use trying to change a changeable person.'

From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship by Zangwill, Israel