Only a handful of words
It seems that in the 2020s, the monopoly over apophthegms belongs to Twitter. Once written in stone, then in epigrams on papyrus, parchment and paper, the short witty saying known as apophthegm has now moved to the most intangible writing support ever invented: the web.
The 5th-century Sayings of the Desert Fathers, known in Latin as Apophthegmata Patrum…