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
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
~brevity quotations by Robert Orben
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
~good sayings about Walking by Bill Vaughan
Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two.
~brevity quotes by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
~motivational quotes about War sayings by Herbert V. Prochnow
I refuse to think of them as chin hairsI think of them as stray eyebrows
~brevity sayings by Janette Barber
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
~brevity quotations by Wayne W. Dyer
I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
~good sayings about Personality by Art Buchwald
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
~brevity quotes by Michel de Montaigne
I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.
~motivational quotes about Vegetarianism sayings by Margi Clark
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
~brevity sayings by Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary
Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
~brevity quotations by Ian Fleming
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
~good sayings about Relationships by Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World
One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.
~brevity quotes by Frank Sheed
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby
~motivational quotes about Women's Greetings sayings by Natalie Wood
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~brevity sayings by Anatole France
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia
~brevity quotations by Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
~good sayings about Hypocrisy by Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894
A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz
~brevity quotes by Humphrey Bogart
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
~motivational quotes about Wise Words sayings by Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
~brevity sayings by George Eliot
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