Word: apothegm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thoroughly hackneyed apothegm “never judge a book by its cover” takes on a whole new meaning in the artwork on display in Mather House’s Three Columns Gallery. “Books!” showcases an extensive sampling of the work of local artists Laura Davidson, Mary McCarthy and Donald Shambroom...
...Christian traditions in a personal affront appear most strange to me. I would rather offer the above cited proverb as an explanation of the affair and use this opportunity to express gratitude to the University for its unwarranted and perennial gentility. And while speaking of ancient traditions, the following apothegm of St. Macarios of Egypt (end of 4th century) is perhaps appropriate: "A bad word makes even good men bad, but it good word makes even bad men good." Fr. Mamas Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Pritchett is a master of the casual apothegm. He accounts for Max Beerbohm's cultivated eccentricities by noting the "foreign strain" in his parentage: "Expatriation allows one to drop a lot of unwanted moral luggage, lets talent travel lightly and opens it to the histrionic." He speculates on the Edwardians' taste for the novels of George Meredith, for satire and high comedy: "One can see why: an age of surfeit had arrived. The lives of the upper classes were both enlivened and desiccated by what seems to have been a continuous diet of lobster and champagne-a diet...
Fair enough, but what is a good newspaper? It does not help to reverse Beecher's apothegm and define a good newspaper as one that prints a miscellaneous, various amount of knowledge. All papers do that. But if the knowledge is undigested, or simply wrong, more is not better. Journalistic quality is thornier matter. A newspaper in its variety may be superb and terrible at the same time, even on the same page...
This, like so many of our ideas about China, was a myth. In fact, the Chinese seem to have taken Mao's apothegm, "Let the past serve the present," with a literalness that Western archaeologists-hampered as they are by the depredations of the antiquity market-might envy. Since about 1950, China's policy for exhuming and classifying its own past has been very coherent and systematic. Indeed, no Western country has produced a state-funded archaeology program to equal China's. For the Chinese, archaeology has a political significance that it lacks in the West...