Meanings of apophthegm in English

He delivered this apophthegm with emphasis, and repeated it in another form.

But before doing so, he entered a little apophthegm in another book.

She rejoined with the apophthegm that made the rounds of Riseholme next day.

That famous apophthegm leads us nearer to the saving truth.

Faint heart never won fair lady, he said to himself, in some answering apophthegm.

What apophthegm founded upon that, thinkest thou, my father would drop for Dr Bayly?'

As Victor Hugo once said, in a fine apophthegm, "Despair yawns."

Never yet did a man of worth dislike good wine, it is a monastical apophthegm.

One apophthegm only stands upon record.

The lump of earth, being taken somewhat by surprise, was not prepared with an apophthegm, and said nothing.

Can't you, from the whole budget of your philosophy, cull one apophthegm to console you for this trivial mischance?

Without Inspiration I could never have hit on that. He re-read the apophthegm with a slower and more solemn utterance.

The moral of this fable cannot be given until he shall get down, and close the conversation with the regular apophthegm.

No saying was oftener in his mouth than that fine apophthegm of Bentley, that no man was ever written down but by himself.

The major part of the volume consists of 190 numbered sentences-eacha French rendering of an apophthegm or reflection drawn from Shakespeare's plays.

To this should be subjoined the apophthegm that that which we are eager to obtain may be that which we have striven to avoid.