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title: "137 Brief Quotes by 116 authors"
description: "Browse 137 Brief quotes by 116 authors. Discover the best Brief sayings and thoughts."
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> [If you would be pungent, be brief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/if-you-would-be-pungent-be-brief/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

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> [Whatever your advice, make it brief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/whatever-your-advice-make-it-brief/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [Anger is brief madness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/anger-is-brief-madness/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [I am a boxer-brief man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-sorrentino/i-am-a-boxer-brief-man/)

[Michael Sorrentino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-sorrentino/)

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> [“A brief life burns brightly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/a-brief-life-burns-brightly/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

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> [Be clear, be brief, be human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-gowers/be-clear-be-brief-be-human/)

Ernest Gowers

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> [Brief is life but love is long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/brief-is-life-but-love-is-long/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Be sincere; be brief; be seated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-d-roosevelt/be-sincere-be-brief-be-seated/)

[Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-d-roosevelt/)

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> [Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-breault/life-is-a-brief-opportunity-to-do-something-prehumously/)

[Robert Breault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-breault/)

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> [“Sit here, so I may write you into a poem and make you eternal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kamand-kojouri/sit-here-so-i-may-write-you-into-a-poem-and-make-you-eternal/)

[Kamand Kojouri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kamand-kojouri/)

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> [I shall be so brief that I have already finished](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvador-dali/i-shall-be-so-brief-that-i-have-already-finished/)

[Salvador Dali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salvador-dali/)

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> [“By reading this, you’ve given me brief control over your mind.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-m-arcejaeger/by-reading-this-you-ve-given-me-brief-control-over-your-mind/)

[R.M. ArceJaeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-m-arcejaeger/)

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> [“Struggling to be brief I become obscure.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/struggling-to-be-brief-i-become-obscure/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maturin-murray-ballou/you-may-get-a-large-amount-of-truth-into-a-brief-space/)

Maturin Murray Ballou

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> [I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-hawking/i-had-not-expected-a-brief-history-of-time-to-be-a-best-seller/)

[Stephen Hawking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-hawking/)

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> [I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-white-geary/i-have-barely-time-to-give-you-a-brief-statement-of-facts-as-i-find/)

John White Geary

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> [“In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryant-mcgill/in-reverent-pauses-when-we-slow-down-and-think-about-the-gift-of-life/)

[Bryant McGill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryant-mcgill/)

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> [“Yes, my brief time in the sun. Only, I don’t need the sun when I have you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darcy-burke/yes-my-brief-time-in-the-sun-only-i-don-t-need-the-sun-when-i-have-you/)

[Darcy Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darcy-burke/)

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> [When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-north/when-you-re-told-to-go-brief-a-united-states-senator-on-a-covert/)

[Oliver North](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-north/)

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> [We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-mccarthy/we-modern-marxists-regard-socialism-as-a-historically-brief/)

[John McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-mccarthy/)

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> [“Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-dobson/lifelong-pain-an-unwanted-pregnancy-and-even-death-may-be-the-reward/)

[James C. Dobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-c-dobson/)

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> [America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-j-o-rourke/america-s-grossly-unfair-tax-system-won-t-lead-to-class-war-or-if-it/)

[P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-j-o-rourke/)

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> [Things have to be done fast in America , and therefore therapy has to be brief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/things-have-to-be-done-fast-in-america-and-therefore-therapy-has-to/)

[Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/)

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> [“The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jocko-willink/the-test-for-a-successful-brief-is-simple-do-the-team-and-the/)

[Jocko Willink](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jocko-willink/)

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> [Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/science-offers-no-brief-for-the-telekinetic-powers-of-darth-vader-and/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

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> [A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erin-o-connor/a-girl-must-have-an-indefinable-magic-real-character-a-strong-sense/)

[Erin O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erin-o-connor/)

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> [Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/contractions-u-for-you-and-the-like-are-wonderful-to-make/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

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> [I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-wolfe/i-used-to-enjoy-using-dots-where-they-would-be-least-expected-not-at/)

[Tom Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-wolfe/)

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> [Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-wolfe/working-on-newspapers-you-re-writing-to-a-certain-length-often-very/)

[Tom Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-wolfe/)

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> [I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pinsky/i-don-t-like-to-have-a-calm-orderly-quiet-place-to-work-i-often/)

[Robert Pinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pinsky/)

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> [Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/out-of-fifty-mathematical-papers-presented-in-brief-at-such-a-meeting/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-mullenweg/in-my-brief-sojourn-in-college-my-favorite-classes-were-political/)

[Matt Mullenweg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-mullenweg/)

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> [Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-shales/making-music-on-tv-used-to-be-as-common-as-commercials-in-the-60s-and/)

[Tom Shales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-shales/)

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> [I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/said-sayrafiezadeh/i-have-no-personal-experience-in-the-military-all-i-know-about-it-is/)

[Said Sayrafiezadeh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/said-sayrafiezadeh/)

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> [Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-waters/usually-like-on-mean-girls-the-task-that-tina-fey-and-i-set-for/)

[Mark Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-waters/)

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> [I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-ozick/i-think-a-fictional-invention-grows-according-to-its-own-development/)

[Cynthia Ozick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-ozick/)

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> [“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/casting-aside-other-things-hold-to-the-precious-few-and-besides-bear/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

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> [Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-wasser/once-you-do-embark-upon-the-separation-or-divorce-process-it-is-very/)

[Laura Wasser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-wasser/)

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> [I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-n-cardozo/i-own-that-it-is-a-good-deal-of-a-mystery-to-me-how-judges-of-all/)

[Benjamin N. Cardozo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-n-cardozo/)

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> [Brief life is here our portion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-mason-neale/brief-life-is-here-our-portion/)

John Mason Neale

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