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Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis. (Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Some people talk too much without saying a lot.

The brevity of life is the calmness of a courageous soul.

The brevity of life is walk in the path of light.

The brevity of being is to your best life.

The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

The breath of life is the brevity to live.

The lesson here is not to take Camus to the beach.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.

The intensity of the pleasure derived from an orgasm is compensation for its brevity.

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.

When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication 'He who knows how to speak, knows also when'.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Verbosity wastes a portion of the reader’s or listener’s life.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit." Stephen King, On Writing

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

A few sentences are enough to tell the truth.

A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

Brevity Is Best: Nicknamed "Silent Cal," President Calvin Coolidge was once challenged by a reporter, saying, "I bet someone that I could get more than two words out of you." Coolidge responded, "You lose." The notion of crafting six word memoirs really took off after Smith Magazine shared this poignant one written by Ernest Hemingway: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." Pithiness Pays Off For Other Reasons: When required to be brief, for example, we gain clarity about what we really mean -- or have to offer. As Mark Twain once wrote, in a slower-paced time, "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Believe is brevity.

Brevity is the sister of talent.

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.

Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.