On Pithies

What’s a ‘Pithy?’

A ‘pithy’ can be any brief, terse or trenchant, tasty and digestible literary short-form such as an... Acutum, Adage, Agudeza, Aphorism, Apophthegm, Axiom, Bon mot, Brocard, Buzzword, Byword, Catchword, Catchphrase, Couplet, Dictum, Distich, Definition, Epigram, Expression, Fragment, Gnome, Haiku, Jingle,  Joke, Koan, Laconism, Law,  Mantra, Maxim, Meme, Moral, Motto,  One-liner, Postulate, Precept, Premise, Principle, Proposition, Proverb, Quip, Quotation, Rule, Rule-of-thumb, Saw, Saying, Sententiae, Shibboleth, Slogan, Snippet, Sound-Bite, Stock-phrase, Tenet, Touchstone, Truism, Tweet, Verse, Watchword, Wisecrack, Witticism, Zinger ...that is both catchy and memorable.

Click on the links below for 'pithies' on different aspects of aphorisms and other short-forms.