Quote by Francois Fenelon
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, t

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. – Francois FeNelon

Other quotes by Francois Fenelon

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. – Francois Fenelon

Category:
Happiness
Read Quote

A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. – Francois Fenelon

Category:
respect
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Brevity
category

The fewer the words, the better the prayer. – Martin Luther

Category:
Brevity

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

Category:
Brevity

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

Category:
Brevity

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

Category:
Brevity

Random Quotes

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. – Epictetus

Category:
Happiness

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Dont just try to come in and take somebody elses life. – Elizabeth Edwards

Category:
alone

Ive made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. – Henry Rollins

Category:
great

Opening a window to let out a fly and ending up with thirty midges, three wasps, two bees and an owl. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse

Category:
Bees