apothegm

• For many years, Cuban revolutionaries have abided by Martí's apothegm: "Freedom is most precious and one must either accept to live without it or be determined to buy it for its price." —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
• It is therefore less an epic than an allegory; and--without questioning the truth of Hazlitt's profound apothegm, that allegories do not bite--we confess that, in general, we have but small liking to that species of composition. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
• "A man cannot die more than once," is an old apothegm, and it would appear bold to dispute it; but still there are lives within lives, such as political lives, literary lives, etcetera, and there is also such a thing as being dead in the eye of the law; so that it is evident that a man can die twice, that is, once professionally or legally, and once naturally I presume, like all other scribblers, I must meet my literary death, that is, when I have written myself down, or have written myself out. —  Olla Podrida
• To bring it to an apothegm--Let the man of science in seeking to enlighten himself, pursue analysis; in seeking to enlighten the outer public, he has no chance but in synthesis FOOTNOTES 1] We have much pleasure in acknowledging one instance of a movement in the right direction, in connection with the Museum of Economic Geology in London. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852
• "Laugh and grow fat" is an apothegm which all people cannot follow, but our mother did in the most satisfactory manner. —  Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days

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