apophthegms

These are but "apophthegms" (23) too trivial, it may be thought, to find

Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

In 1985, Elizabeth Rawson, fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, speculated that it would probably have been in the Hellenistic tradition of biography—a literary form written in an unpretentious, unrhetorical style; it might quote documents, but it liked apophthegms by its subject, and it could be gossipy and irresponsible . . .

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

Father Eustace also dealt forth with well-meant kindness those apophthegms and dogmata of consolation, which friendship almost always offers to grief, though they are uniformly offered in vain.

The Monastery 2008

There needed no licensing of books among them, for they disliked all but their own laconic apophthegms, and took a slight occasion to chase Archilochus out of their city, perhaps for composing in a higher strain than their own soldierly ballads and roundels could reach to.

Areopagitica 2007

There needed no licensing of books among them, for they disliked all but their own laconic apophthegms, and took a slight occasion to chase Archilochus out of their city, perhaps for composing in a higher strain than their own soldierly ballads and roundels could reach to.

Areopagitica 2007

Their most favourite dramatic pieces are almost without incident; and the dialogue of their comedies consists of moral, insipid apophthegms, intirely destitute of wit or repartee.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

But he answered all their expostulations with a string of prudent apophthegms, such as, “The shortest follies are the best”; “Better to retrench upon conviction than compulsion”; and divers other wise maxims, seemingly the result of experience and philosophic reflection.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

For apophthegms, it is a great loss of that book of

The Advancement of Learning 2003

The Turks have a maxim which, like most cynical apophthegms, carries with it the buzzing trumpet of falsehood as well as the small, fine “sting of truth.”

Eothen 2003

V. 63 This book owes whatever charm it possesses chiefly to the apophthegms embedded in it.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003