''Apophthegmata'', the plural of ''apophthegm'' (also spelled ''apothegm''), a pithy maxim, is the abbreviated title of several collections of aphorisms, adages, maxim (philosophy), maxims, or proverbs, specifically:
* Delphic maxims, Apophthegmata of Delphi
* ''Apophthegmata Laconica'' attributed to Plutarchus
* ''Apophthegmata Patrum'' (''Sayings of the Desert Fathers, [Christian Desert] Fathers'')
* ''Macarius of Egypt#Writings: the 50 Spiritual Homilies and Letters, Apophthegmata Macarii Magni''
* ''Apophthegmatum Opus'' of Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
* ''Apophthegmata, ex Probatis Graecae Latinaeque Linguae Scriptoribus'' of Conrad Lycosthenes (circa 1518-61)
* ''Ars Apophthegmatica'' (1655-6) of Georg Philipp Harsdörffer
* ''Der Teutschen Scharpfsinnige kluge Sprüch'' (1626) of Julius Wilhelm Zincgref
It may also denominate, ''scire licet'', a literary genre.
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