Brevity quotes

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◆ I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

- Blaise Pascal100

◆ If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

- Woodrow Wilson99

◆ Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

- Franklin D Roosevelt99

◆ In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

- Horace99

◆ Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator

- Marcus Tullius Cicero99

◆ Brevity is a great charm of eloquence

- Marcus Tullius Cicero99

◆ Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

- Dorothy Parker99

◆ It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ Good things, when short, are twice as good.

- Tom Stoppard99

◆ A short saying often contains much wisdom.

- Sophocles99

◆ The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

- George Burns99

◆ Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

- Jean De La Bruyere99

◆ Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

- Shirley Conran99

◆ Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

- Michel De Montaigne99

◆ Whatever advice you give, be short.

- Horace99