On folio 239. occurs the following apophthegm, which is the one relating to the subject before us: -- ❋ Various (N/A)
Collier did so, and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave apophthegm which is to be a set-off against all the libertinism of the piece, is contained in the following triplet: -- ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)
Halpern Sr had always had a gift for the grouchy apophthegm. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yeah, my wife is a teacher, so I'm extra biased, but that rubbish apophthegm has always engendered a desire in me to give its adherents a thrashing with a buggy whip. ❋ Jlundberg (2010)
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." ❋ Unknown (2008)
For once, however, this apophthegm failed; the next call was altogether as ineffectual as the former; and moreover, attended with a phenomenon which to them was equally strange and inexplicable: this was no other than such a reduction in the size of Mrs. Trunnion as might have been expected after the birth of a full-grown child. ❋ Unknown (2004)
To do Mrs Wilson justice, her nocturnal harangues upon such occasions not unfrequently terminated with this sage apophthegm, which always prefaced the producing of some provision a little better than ordinary, such as she now placed before him. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
Indeed, this apophthegm he seldom repeated since his marriage, except in the company of a very few intimates, to whose secrecy and discretion he could trust. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He delivered this apophthegm with emphasis, and repeated it in another form. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Never yet did a man of worth dislike good wine, it is a monastical apophthegm. ❋ Unknown (2002)
It will be seen, from these hurried remarks, that there is more truth than Dr. Kitchiner was aware of in his apophthegm -- that a clean skin may be regarded as next in efficacy to a clear conscience. ❋ Various (N/A)
His head is of no great depth, yet well furnished; and when it is in conjunction with his brethren, may bring forth a city apophthegm, or some such sage matter. ❋ John Earle (N/A)
That God made the country and man made the town was (long before Cowper) a saying of Varro's; but in Greek I can think of no such apophthegm. ❋ Various (N/A)
To the victors belonged the spoils, as they discovered with instinctive sagacity that they should do, though the apophthegm had not yet received the authentic seal of American statesmanship. ❋ Various (N/A)
He also anticipated La Rochefoucauld and Byron in their apophthegm concerning woman's last love. ❋ Various (N/A)
Faint heart never won fair lady, he said to himself, in some answering apophthegm. ❋ Various (N/A)
Another perfect thing from this diverting piece, followed also by Homeric cachinnations, was the mock-serious apophthegm: "If a cloud is going to support a lady of substantial proportions, you must make it fairly solid." ❋ Various (N/A)
