Phrases like:
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
No use crying over spilt milk.
Don't put all of your eggs in one basket.
I feel like I'm blanking here.
I googled one, and I get proverb.
But I don't feel like I hear that in common use.
Is there another word that describes such a phrase? I feel like idiom doesn't actually fit, as an idiom according to Merriam-Webster:
an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own
Best Answer
Aphorism
Source: Merriam-Webster