apothegms James Ramsey "Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged." III 070707 ... the dictionary Apothegm: A short, pithy, instructive saying; a terse remark or aphorism. definition 070707 ... pronounced ap-uh-them 070707 ... It causes trouble. 'Ware the platitude, though, friend. Too often the aphorismic crew (maxims, proverbs, etc) are the refuge of simpletones, whose inability to grasp the complexity of a situation manifests in undue reductionism - thereby preventing any true clarity while seeming to them to indicate quite the opposite. 070708 ... forsaken by a toaster clerbloinkula! ahahaha!!! 070708 what's it to you? who go blather from