apothegm

Example Sentences

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On Saturday, Broner apologized for his language, invoking an apothegm of his own invention.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2015

He was an apothegm slinger; he was unstoppable.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2012

The Philip Green approach, "done and dusted, back to the beach", is not their style, any more than his apothegm: "I want to make a profit, not be a prophet."

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2010

In fact, the Chinese seem to have taken Mao's apothegm, "Let the past serve the present," with a literalness that Western archaeologists�hampered as they are by the depredations of the antiquity market�might envy.

From Time Magazine Archive

On reading these last words, who will not remember Cacault's apothegm, uttered in 1801: "Nations now-a-days will not allow their rulers to dispose of them in regard to religious matters."

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.