No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.
[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?
As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope a reader will find something of it when the work is complete. But I do try to figure out where in their experiences certain characters of mine, who are not necessarily readers, and certainly not writers or artists, find an equivalent sensation: of delight, of astonishment, of whatever it is that briefly - and brevity seems essential - reassures us, connects us, sends a shiver of inarticulate recognition down our spines: Oh, yes: life.
The secret of being a bore. . . is to tell everything.
Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they would behave exactly like the cathode rays.
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
