Brevity Quotes

86 quotes by 71 authors

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are… — Clarence Darrow
For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e. — Leonhard Euler
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.... — Hosea Ballou
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose.… — Maxine Hong Kingston
Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the pointâ€“and couch… — Cyrus the Great
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. — Antonio Porchia
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which… — Reginald Horace Blyth
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life,… — Bertrand Russell
What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we… — Mark Twain
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. — Shirley Conran
As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to… — Trevanian
I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry… — Jon Foreman
What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human… — Richard Preston
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. — Annie Proulx
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name… — Charles Spurgeon
When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable… — Hermann Hesse
Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point… — Andre Comte-Sponville
If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of… — Wilhelm Rontgen

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