Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“for in history there is nothing more pleasing than clear and brilliant brevity.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity. — Martial Copy Share Image
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. — Dennis Roch Copy Share Image
What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“I have already made this paper too long, for which I must crave pardon, not having now time to make it shorter.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“But brevity MAKES sweetness, doesn’t it? Yes, I think so. Because when the time is gone, you can never get it back.” — Stephen King, 11/22/63 Copy Share Image
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
