"Apophthegm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with that Apophthegm the Compiler doffs his Cap and Bells, and leaves you, Gentle Reader, in the Merry Company he has ...
— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon
... discovery that some years of assiduous toil had been positively thrown away. Sir W. Hamilton, if we recollect rightly, said that by so many more languages as a man knows, by so many more times is he a man—an apophthegm of but a shallow kind if all he meant to convey was that an Englishman who can speak French is also a Frenchman by virtue of his knowledge of the colloquial. The opening up of new fields of thought through the medium of a new literature, ...
— Chinese Sketches • Herbert A. Giles |
