Quotes About Brevity

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.

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

We learn brevity from Jesus. His greatest sermon can be read in eight minutes. His best-known story can be read in ninety seconds. He summarized prayer in five phrases. He silenced accusers with one challenge. He rescued a soul with one sentence. He summarized the Law in three verses and reduced all his teachings to one command. He made his point and went home.

The brevity of life grants power to abide, not an excuse to bail. Fleeting days don't justify fleeing problems. Fleeting days strengthen us to endure problems. Will your problems pass? No guarantee they will. Will your pain cease? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But heaven gives this promise: "our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Corinthians 4:17 NKJV).

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Shun epic verse.

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

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

And a rose, she lived as roses do, the space of a morn.

There is for each man a day, an hour, a minute. The Bible talks in many places about the brevity of life, and the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.

If this book were limited to 140 pages, it would end here.

Bisogna affrettarsi a riderne per non dover piangere perché la vita è davvero troppo strana.

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

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

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

La vida es demasiado corta y el ADN demasiado largo.

I prized, too, the almost perfect transparency of this meal, the brevity and simplicity of the food chain that linked it to the wider world.

Survival on Earth is a surprisingly tricky business. Of the billions and billions of species of living thing that have existed since the dawn of time, most—99.99 percent—are no longer around. Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous. It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

Of the billions and billions of species of living thing that have existed since the dawn of time, most—99.99 percent—are no longer around. Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous. It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

Webster was responsible also for the American aluminum in favor of the British aluminium. His choice has the fractional advantage of brevity, but defaults in terms of consistency.

Of the billions and billions of species of living things that have existed since the dawn of time, most—99.99 percent, it has been suggested—are no longer around. Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous. It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

English also has a commendable tendency toward conciseness, in contrast to many languages