Logo
The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expres

The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression: the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit. – Alfred Bougeart, quoted in A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedn

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

We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

Category:
Quotations

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase… – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Category:
Quotations

Often we were rescued by that ever-present help in time of trouble, the beloved benefactor known only as “Anonymous.” – Frank Spencer Mead (1898–1982), preface to 12,000 Religious Quotations, 19

Category:
Quotations

The truest sayings are paradoxical. – Laozi, as quoted in The Wisdom of the East: The Sayings of Lao Tzŭ, transla

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race. – Tim Bishop

Category:
Religion

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. – Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917

Category:
Art

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. – Audre Lorde

Category:
Truth

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience. – Jeanette Winterson

Category:
Experience