--- title: "13 Abridged Quotes by 13 authors" description: "Browse 13 Abridged quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Abridged sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f4/benjamin-franklin-65_dispute_many-a-long-dispute-among-divines-may-be_2338635.png" --- > [Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/many-a-long-dispute-among-divines-may-be-thus-abridged-it-is-so-it-is/) [Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f4/benjamin-franklin-65_dispute_many-a-long-dispute-among-divines-may-be_2338635.png) > [ All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in \[their\] exercise by law. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/all-natural-rights-may-be-abridged-or-modified-in-their-exercise-by/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53c/thomas-jefferson-43_exercise_all-natural-rights-may-be-abridged-or-mo_1941963.jpg) > [Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/berkeley-breathed/some-of-us-find-our-lives-abridged-even-before-the-paperback-comes-out/) [Berkeley Breathed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/berkeley-breathed/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/794/berkeley-breathed-14641_life_some-of-us-find-our-lives-abridged-even_2449265.png) > [No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-penn/no-people-can-be-truly-happy-if-abridged-of-the-freedom-of-their/) [William Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-penn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bad/william-penn-1104_conscience_no-people-can-be-truly-happy-if-abridged_2225614.png) > [Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne/every-abridgement-of-a-good-book-is-a-fool-abridged/) [Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/620/michel-de-montaigne-142_book_every-abridgement-of-a-good-book-is-a-fo_2417949.jpg) > [“Written twenty years after she held office, this abridged biography is being released now, prior to taking place. Maybe we can learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-omeara/written-twenty-years-after-she-held-office-this-abridged-biography-is/) [Nancy Omeara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-omeara/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c5/nancy-omeara-74948_alternative-history_written-twenty-years-after-she-held-offi_2727980.jpg) > [At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-babbage/at-each-increase-of-knowledge-as-well-as-on-the-contrivance-of-every/) [Charles Babbage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-babbage/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/502/charles-babbage-8461_increase_at-each-increase-of-knowledge-as-well-as_1760432.png) > [When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-griffin/when-i-m-going-to-see-a-comedian-i-don-t-want-to-see-them-hold-back/) [Kathy Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-griffin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04e/kathy-griffin-4016_back_when-i-m-going-to-see-a-comedian-i-don-t_2713901.png) > [“On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jasper-fforde/on-one-memorable-occasion-vronsky-played-all-the-parts-in-an-abridged/) [Jasper Fforde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jasper-fforde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca9/jasper-fforde-797_actor_on-one-memorable-occasion-vronsky-played_2439430.png) > [Mentor’s Official and Complete Procedural Handbook on Initial Succubus Intake and Probationary Period (Abridged). “Abridged?” I spun toward Jerome. “Tell me you’re…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-mead/mentor-s-official-and-complete-procedural-handbook-on-initial/) [Richelle Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-mead/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/771/richelle-mead-46_accused_mentor-s-official-and-complete-procedura_3112083.jpg) > [“This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/this-is-the-whole-of-the-story-and-we-might-have-left-it-at-that-had/) [Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/291/vladimir-nabokov-198_life_this-is-the-whole-of-the-story-and-we-mi_1950845.jpg) > [Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-s-monson/reading-is-one-of-the-true-pleasures-of-life-in-our-age-of-mass/) [Thomas S. Monson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-s-monson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/163/thomas-s-monson-409_adapted_reading-is-one-of-the-true-pleasures-of_717921.png) > [“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-h-auden-2/in-any-first-class-work-of-art-you-can-find-passages-that-in/) [W.H. 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