pithy saying

‘A pithy saying;’ he commented, ‘a most useful aspiration, but absurd withal. For to make a fistful bigger than the fist, an armful larger than the arm, or to try and make your stride wider than your legs can stretch, are things monstrous and impossible. Nor may a man mount above himself or above humanity: for he can see only with his own eyes, grip only with his own grasp.’

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.

The pithy saying: “Willful waste makes woeful want.”

Men far outnumber women there, which has led to a pithy saying among the women to the effect that "the odds are good but the goods are odd."

There is wisdom in the pithy saying of-a recent writer: "Much ill comes, not because men and women are married, but because they are fools."