“The trouble with Riderhood's apothegm is that it supplies an endless excuse for not doing it.”

“At my request, one young Chinese woman wrote the apothegm with only a moment's hesitation.”

“The 84-year-old unburdens himself of this apothegm with the foxy charm of the late French actor Charles Boyer.”

“You belong where the witty apothegms of Lords, the silly moralities of matrons, the blinding high of opium, and the beauty of visual arts mingle to form one convoluted world.”

“Prose romances were rewritten as plays, old plays were rewritten as new, classical texts were translated, adapted, and plundered for moral sententiae, apothegms, and imagery.”

“These apothegms are, all of them, the stuff of professional politics.”