apophthegm

• Ronald Reagan's inaugural apophthegm - that government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem - was, after all, immensely popular among many constituencies. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
• How beautifully glowed the crimson-snow of the singing creature's new-washed feet It will be seen, from these hurried remarks, that there is more truth than Dr. Kitchiner was aware of in his apophthegm--that a clean skin may be regarded as next in efficacy to a clear conscience. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827
• Another perfect thing from this diverting piece, followed also by Homeric cachinnations, was the mock-serious apophthegm: "If a cloud is going to support a lady of substantial proportions, you must make it fairly solid I came away with reluctance, filled with wonder at the want of enterprise shown by our revue-managers in not having, long ere now, secured CHARLES DARLING'S services. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917
• Later he delivered himself of the unstatesmanlike and unworthy apophthegm: "Better be united in support of a short-sighted and foolish policy than divided in support of a far-sighted and wise one." —  Ireland Since Parnell
• This punishment would be felt as a degradation by the slave; not the confinement to her bedstead, where she would perhaps have seated herself from choice, had she not been in disgrace Once a slave, and always a slave,' says Fierdowsee the great poet of Persia; but this apophthegm was in allusion to the 'mean mind' of the King who treated him scurvily after his immense labour in that noble work, 'The Shah Namah.' —  Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society

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