格言用英语怎么说？

格言

例句

• “Waste not, want not” is her favourite maxim. “不浪费则不匮乏”是她喜爱的格言。
• a gnomic style 格言式
• gnomic verse 格言诗
• Yet Kissinger succeeded in defying an old Washington dictum that you can have in the capital visibility or influence,but not both. 在华盛顿有一条传统格言：要么抛头露面，要么得势弄权，二者不可兼得。基辛格却公然蔑视这种传统。
• We attributed this saying to Shakespeare. 我们认为这句格言出自莎士比亚。
• Life is not composed by aphorism,how can we decorate it with pompous cliches? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence. 人生并非格言组成，岂能靠美丽的辞章来妆点，默默中，有我对你最诚挚的祝福。
• a biting aphorism 发人深省的格言
• Main Idea: I couldn't hold back my tears or sighs, bewailing my people's hard life. 格言大意: 一声长叹,我禁不住流下了热泪, 哀叹人民的生活史多么艰难.
• He formulated trenchant aphorisms that caught their attention. 他阐述的鲜明格言引起了人们的注意.
• "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" was one of his generation's favored aphorisms. “如果他们宣战却无人应战该怎么办？”是他那一代人钟爱的格言。