Quotes About Pithy

Remember what Aristotle said!" she cries. "Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. And Horace!" Horace? "What did Horace say, Pithy?" "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own.

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

I'm tongue in cheek, but very much to the point.

A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Please forgive the long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

I like to write a joke without any fat on it. The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy "one word" Zen. When asked "What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?" he replied: "An appropriate statement." On another occasion, he answered: "Cake." I admired his directness.

They should be more like what would have been sent by telegraph in days of old (when each word cost money) than prose.

The English of the Bible has a pithiness and raciness, a homely tang, a terse sententiousness, an idiomatic flavour which comes home to men's business and bosoms ... a nobility of diction and ... a rhythmic quality . . . unrivaled in its beauty.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.

We must be brief.

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

My favorite albums are really short.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

There are entire movements, many of them rooted in the wisdom of the ancients, many stolen, Westernized, and simplified from the East. It's all right, though, social media will reduce them to a pithy pair of lines.