It is expressed in maxim and apothegm, in play and poem.

And the woman merely became irrelevant with her apothegm about foreigners.

Among them, Anderson's ideas and comments were included, flanked by an occasional apothegm.

The second, chosen presumably for the sake of the paradox, was the French apothegm:

That last apothegm might be the motto of this book.

Let me die upon this apothegm, for I shall never make a truer one.

The Delphic apothegm, "Know thyself," was said to have descended from heaven:

The girl died without profiting by this official apothegm.

Jeff chuckled at the apothegm even while he protested.

I dared make no retort to Zenobia's concluding apothegm.

Madame Gréville's final apothegm had suggested one of them.

One might gather the impression that the apothegm of Sir William Hamilton needed a slight amendment.

It has been an apothegm these five thousand years, that toil sweetens the bread it earns.

He begins to doubt the wisdom of reliance upon that worn apothegm about absence conquering love.

The great poet Mutanebbi has given us an apothegm of great power on this very subject.

Zoe took no notice of this droll apothegm.