adage

1. One of several terms describing short, pithy sayings, or traditional expressions of conventional wisdom. (Silva Rhetoricae)

2. 224. APOPHTHEGM.
The apophthegm is a short, pithy sentence or maxim, and it contributes to emphasis by its conciseness and energy. (De Mille)

2. 389. APOPHTHEGM.
3. Sometimes a proposition is summed up in the form of an apophthegm, and is thereby rendered more impressive and emphatic. (De Mille)

1. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. (Silva Rhetoricae)

2. "We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded by a sleep." -SHAKESPEARE (De Mille)

2. "To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering." -MILTON (De Mille)

2. "A little learning is a dangerous thing." -POPE (De Mille)