Dictum

The dictum from that famous case became the basis for a number of important Supreme Court decisions.

It was a Boston critic who echoed the dictum of the French critic—that grammar has no place in the world of letters.

As Yoda's old dictum goes, "Do or do not. There is no try."

This should not surprise us who know that van Gogh wrote: 'To paint and to love women is incompatible'; van Gogh was right for himself, which does not mean that he was right for everybody, and I will not draw from his dictum the probably incorrect conclusion that 'To paint and to love literature is incompatible.'

[…]a dictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound[…]

1. The utmost in steam producing capacity permitted by weight and dimensions; in other words, capacity to boil water—H. A. Ivatt's old dictum.

But this is not the philosophical revolution of which I speak. What Warhol's dictum amounted to was that you cannot tell when something is a work of art just by looking at it, for there is no particular way that art has to look.