apothegm

“When you feel down, count your blessings. Beatrice had so often heard people, even people she greatly respected, utter that apothegm with the same confidence with which pharmaceutical reps tout the virtues of Zoloft or Prozac.” Melanie Forde; Hillwilla; D Street Books; 2018. “‘To live outside the law, you must be honest.’ [Hunter] Thompson, like a lot of people in the sixties and seventies, interpreted Dylan’s famous apothegm to mean that in order to be honest you must live outside the law.

By the time the fallacy in this reading became obvious, his persona ... was engraved in pop-culture stone.” Louis Menand; Believer; The New Yorker; Mar 7, 2005.