1929), last week heeded a talmudic apothegm which patriarchal NathanStraus once telegraphed her late husband. Nathan Straus had said: “Whenyou give at death it is lead; when you give in sickness ...

In the New York City tabloid game, an apothegm from the 1970s or ’80s used to be passed down reverently from old hack to young buck: “You can say whatever you want about the mafia. They’re not going ...

only impressed me with the truth of the old apothegm, 'Life is short, and Art is long' The fact is, the world is accumulating too many materials for knowledge. We do not recognize for rubbish what ...

Every bait is not for every fish. We begin by admitting the old Doctor's apothegm that Art is long; we gradually become persuaded that it is like the Irishman's rope, the other end of which was ...

But this is not the vocabulary of reason. 1. The pithy apothegm of Tacitus (Agricola §30)—"They make desolation and they call it peace" ("ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant")—is worked into the ...

The “Uncle Vanya” that opened on Wednesday at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, its 10th Broadway revival in 100 years, sees ...

I fail to document the very apothegm. However, what Voltaire did say suffices to establish credibility for the attribution. For he did, indeed, say that Esprit des lois manifested greater “esprit” ...