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I created my own bumper sticker using the apothegm "it is what it is" for my old red 1989 Ford pickup truck.

Growing up, mom always used the apothegm "failure teaches success" although I do not know where she got it from.

Our spiritual leader peppers his speeches with one apothegm after another because he says that maxims tend to stick in people’s minds.

One of my mother's favorite apothegms was that “you can’t buy happiness.”