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For a campaign song that's pithy you have to go back to 1931 and the satirical musical Of Thee I Sing , in which John P. Wintergreen campaigns for the White House with a powerful slogan ("A Vote for Wintergreen Is a Vote for Wintergreen") and a (by the Gershwins) of just four lines:
He wanted a sound bite--something pithy to take out of context.
Bean slippers, pajamas, and bathrobe matching set, sat down in my spacious breakfast nook over my customary English muffin and marmalade, took a sip of this delightful Turkish blend my wife and I picked up in the most adorable little catalogue we found, and began flipping through the day's periodicals in search of something pithy and clever to ruminate upon.
The Natives, rightful owners of the land, are immutable, their pithy pidginisms ("Man builds great boats of iron, but the sea is stronger") deserving of the utmost reverence ("You must remember what he said.
Running English proverbs and sayings through my mind, I seem to find that although our language has the resources to be fairly pithy, we are not as attracted to pithiness as Russians and Romans.