apophthegm

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I was still pondering over this apophthegm, when Crofton aroused me by pushing across the table a great heap of gold.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

The moral of this fable cannot be given until he shall get down, and close the conversation with the regular apophthegm.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose

The perverseness of mankind makes it often mischievous 37in men of eminence to give way to merriment; the idle and the illiterate will long shelter themselves under this foolish apophthegm.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

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

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 The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel