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

A proverb is defined in one of the more popular dictionaries of our language as "a brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience."

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

I think it would have been pleasant to know a man who could sum up his reflections upon the important question of berries in such a pithy saying as that which Walton repeats.

From Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things by Van Dyke, Henry

The French have a clever and pithy saying, that of—"On peut tout dire à un grand peuple."

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore