It is expressed in maxim and apothegm, in play and poem. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
“Dat Galenus opes,” however, is a Western apothegm: the utmost. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
It grew progressively, then demolished and shattered that apothegm. From Wordnik.com. [10TH ANNIVERSARY-INTERIOR MINISTRY] Reference
Favorite apothegm by Perry Logan on Saturday, Mar 7, 2009 at 6: 09: 52 AM. From Wordnik.com. [What Happens to Tough Guy Limbaugh When Confronted?] Reference
The Burkean apothegm mentioned earlier in the article is very fitting here. From Wordnik.com. [The Dangers of Architectural Positivism] Reference
This pithy condensation of an ancient conservative apothegm has much to recommend it. From Wordnik.com. [Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 8-24-08: In Which House Dwellers Throw Stones] Reference
This legend reads like a moral apothegm on the increasing value of life as it passes away. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
An old medical apothegm personifies the hygienic forces as the Doctors Air, Diet, Exercise, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
I remember, in the history of Tamerlane, an incident which, to me, has always had the force of an apothegm. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Each of these is an extended apothegm, presenting not only rules of life, but mottoes and maxims for daily use. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Married people have the whole burden of life to bear, while the unmarried have only half, was a characteristically selfish apothegm. From Wordnik.com. [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference
I am afraid that, at the University of California, we are sometimes inclined to rely too heavily on the "publish or perish" apothegm. From Wordnik.com. [Greatly Exaggerated] Reference
Just remember the apothegm that a government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away. From Wordnik.com. [Never Yet Melted] Reference
Never was the trite, because sage apothegm, that “The child is father to the man,” more fully verified than in the case of Goldsmith. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
Calumny, however, had to give way to truth, and for eighty years this apothegm has been current, “Sugar hurts nothing but the purse.”. From Wordnik.com. [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference
If you would forgive your enemy, says the Malay proverb, first inflict a hurt on him; and Lily was experiencing the truth of the apothegm. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Mirth] Reference
The apothegm of Bonaparte is as false as he was unsuccessful — namely, that Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
Justness of the apothegm was fully corroborated here. From Wordnik.com. [Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference
I dared make no retort to Zenobia's concluding apothegm. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
Lydia neither assented to nor dissented from this apothegm. From Wordnik.com. [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference
Delphic apothegm, "Know thyself," was said to have descended from heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
Who can forget that memorable apothegm to the Irish people on the subject?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference
INFLICT A HURT ON HIM; and Lily was experiencing the truth of the apothegm. From Wordnik.com. [House of Mirth] Reference
It has been an apothegm these five thousand years, that toil sweetens the bread it earns. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")] Reference
Among them, Anderson's ideas and comments were included, flanked by an occasional apothegm. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference
That history repeats itself is an apothegm which has descended to us from a dateless antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference
He begins to doubt the wisdom of reliance upon that worn apothegm about absence conquering love. From Wordnik.com. [Backlog Studies] Reference
Though I had not on this occasion the courage to contradict him, I doubted the truth of his apothegm. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
It was in one of his letters that I first found the apothegm, "Men are born either Platonists or Aristotelians,". From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Astronomer] Reference
He delighted to express his opinions by an apothegm, illustrate them by a parable, or drive them home by a story. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America] Reference
"The proper study of mankind is man," -- whatever the author of the line may have himself intended by his apothegm. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
"Laugh and grow fat" is an apothegm which all people cannot follow, but our mother did in the most satisfactory manner. From Wordnik.com. [Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days] Reference
In reading the above sentence a curious apothegm of an old weather-beaten Dutch navigator comes full upon my recollection. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1] Reference
The girl demurring against this apothegm -- as custom again exacted, -- was, still in common fairness, convinced of her error. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
Never was the trite, because sage apothegm, that "The child is father to the man," more fully verified than in the case of Goldsmith. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith A Biography] Reference
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