Quotations about Brevity
November 19, 2008
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. ~Dennis Roth
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. ~Blaise Pascal, translated from French, Lettres Provinciales, XVI, 1656<!–I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. ~Blaise Pascal, Letters provinciales, 1656-1657, no. 16, MBT p262–>
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. ~Sydney Smith
If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, “The Gun”
“In good prose (says Schlegel) every word should be underlined!” that is, every word should be the right one; and then no one would be righter than another. There are no italics in Plato. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry. ~Rabelais, Pantagruel
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
November 7, 2008
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
~Author : Thornton Wilder Wise Quotes
When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.
~Author : Huey Long Motivational Sayings
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
~Author : Florida ScottMaxwell Famous Quotes
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
~Author : Ella Wheeler Wilcox Inspirational Sayings
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
~Author : John Hay Distichs latter 19th century Nice Quotes
Complaining is good for you as long as you’re not complaining to the person you’re complaining about.
~Author : Lynn Johnston Great Sayings
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
~Author : Carl Jung Meaningful Sayings
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Wise Quotes
Quotes & sayings on laziness
October 28, 2008
Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
~ by Jimmy Lyons
It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
~ by Ronald Reagan
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
~ by David Dunham
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others.
~ by Oscar Wilde
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
~ by Saint Jerome
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
~ by Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem
The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.
~ by Henry Clay
People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.
~ by Bob Hope
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
~ by Jules Renard
Quotations about Kindness
October 24, 2008
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~Rudyard Kipling
Don’t be yourself – be someone a little nicer. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. ~Frank Tyger
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown
A fellow who does things that count, doesn’t usually stop to count them. ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Motivational Sayings
October 23, 2008
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Motivational Sayings
If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Famous Quotes
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
~Author : Author Unknown Inspirational Sayings
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Nice Quotes
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Great Sayings
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
~Author : Robert Albert Bloch Meaningful Sayings
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.
~Author : Lord Billingsley Wise Quotes
