pithy

I had the pleasure of hearing one—a short, pithy gem called “The Italian System”—at a reading in Trastevere last month.

Each work is a pithy marvel that captures the languorous excitement (and sometimes the radiant gloom) of a summer day to remember.

Mandery knows when to be pithy and when to go long, like in passages about the subtleties of memoranda.

She was always alert to what was going on, and her comments were pithy and to the point.

He defines Dynamic Inaction with one pithy aphorism: “When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.”

The wicked man's epitaph, as a rule, may be generally appropriately written in the pithy words "He was, and is not."

He is in speech eloquent and pithy; but which is chiefest, he is in religion, as religious in life as he is sincere in profession.

The familiar voice that gave utterance to this pithy affirmation proceeded from the doorway leading into the reception hall.

As pithy an inscription appears on the bell of S. Ives, which is rung early in the morning.

Aphorism, af′or-izm, n. a concise statement of a principle in any science: a brief, pithy saying: an adage.