Spock was full of these gnomic utterances; presumably they were Vulcanian.

Also per usual is the presence of a central figure who is struggling against this hostile, cosmically comic environment and is given to gnomic utterances.

Teg knew the Atreides reputation for reliable prescience, but gnomic utterances had no place in his universe.

In some groups of works, on the other hand, he employs plain letters to broadcast such gnomic utterances as "Nice, hot vegetables."

Seventeen-year-old Alex is working off her drug addiction at an expensive boarding school while dating a pothead who punctuates his stoner trance with gnomic utterances.

According to them, Samantha was a very serious sort of girl, given to long reflective silences and gnomic utterances, with no time for small talk, sports and television.

The other securely attributed fragment resembles many of the gnomic utterances that characterize the Works and Days:

Another character was Eric the Gardener, a Wiltshireman inclined to speak in gnomic, poetic utterances and non sequiturs.

He also has an irritating fondness for gnomic utterances almost as annoying as the garden decorations themselves:

Overseeing this and other shadowy business is Mr. Hawthorne, a former Presidential candidate given to gnomic utterances and the power to look into men's hearts.