apophthegm
apothegm AmE

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

He re-read the apophthegm with a slower and more solemn utterance.

This failure of the government was underlined by his own legendary apophthegm: "Who's governing this country?"

Also apophthegm.

Scholars have labeled this method of narration an apophthegm, chreia or pronouncement story.

Apophthegm - ".

The name is reminiscent of the word apophthegm, which means a statement that speaks one's mind - which would make the title mean a berserk manifesto.

This memorable apophthegm is repeated by Luigi Pulci and Trissino.

This apophthegm was adapted from a famous hadith in which the Prophet Muhammad is have reported to have said:

The literary form of the apophthegm is essential to his analysis of human character, the workings of human society and the philosophical constitution of the world.

This aptitude so pleased Ah-tang (who had expected at the most a farewell apophthegm) that he at once made Tian captain of a chosen band.

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

To collect and arrange facts is, as he tells us, the sole secret of his success, and he adds in other words the famous apophthegm of Newton, "hypotheses non fingo."

"I remembered E.M. Forster's apophthegm that if he ever had to choose between cause and country," wrote Levett, "he hoped he would have the guts to choose the cause."