Apothegm Quotes
- The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. — Laozi
- The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and… — Edwin Percy Whipple
- The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will… — William Gilmore Simms
- History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being… — I. Bernard Cohen
- Common sense is not so common. — Voltaire
- The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm and epigram — Edwin P Whipple