Logo
I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had

I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657, translated from French

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Brevity
category

Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. – Author Unknown

Category:
Brevity

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry. – Rabelais, Pantagruel

Category:
Brevity

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

Category:
Brevity

Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

Category:
Brevity

Random Quotes

Thats the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly. – Berkeley Breathed

Category:
Anger

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank. – Rick Mercer

Category:
car

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television. – Harvey Fierstein

Category:
movies

Leisure is the exultation of the possible. – Martin Buber

Category:
Rest, Leisure