Free brevity sayings, quotes and quotations
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
~brevity quotations by Sydney Smith
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
~inspirational sayings about Brevity quotes by Robert Southey
Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.
~brevity quotes by Jean de La Bruyere
If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday.
~famous quotes about Brevity by M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, The Gun
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
~brevity sayings by Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
~brevity quotations by Dorothy Parker
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
~inspirational sayings about Brevity quotes by Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.
~brevity quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
~famous quotes about Brevity by Dennis Roth
If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure.
~brevity sayings by Lord Sandwich
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
~brevity quotations by Thomas Jefferson
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.
~inspirational sayings about Brevity quotes by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
~brevity quotes by David Belasco
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
~famous quotes about Brevity by Blaise Pascal, translated from French, Lettres Provinciales, XVI, 1656
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
~brevity sayings by William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.
~brevity quotations by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Just like the river
It hits & misses
But always flows..
~good sayings about Living by
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
~brevity quotes by Dennis Wholey
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
~motivational quotes about Politics sayings by Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
~brevity sayings by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action
~brevity quotations by W.J. Cameron
To accept a favor is to confer one. To refuse one is an insult. The open hand becomes the closed fist.
~good sayings about Personality by
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
~brevity quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
~motivational quotes about Women sayings by Bette Davis, about Jayne Mansfield
Your leisure largely determines your future. Are you investing or wasting it?
~brevity sayings by
In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every dayIt's either that or buy a new golf ball
~brevity quotations by Gene Perret
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
~good sayings about Math by Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity
The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought.
~brevity quotes by
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
~motivational quotes about Vices sayings by George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
~brevity sayings by Aldous Huxley
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
~brevity quotations by Socrates
Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel.
~good sayings about Baseball by Roger Simon, 1988
Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
~brevity quotes by Nisandeh Neta
Historians are gossips who tease the dead.
~motivational quotes about History sayings by Voltaire, Scribbling Books
Reach for the stars and never fear. You are capable of everything and can have anything you want.
In memory of Sandy and Jim Novotney
~brevity sayings by by way of Sandy Novotney
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