If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey Category: Brevity
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. – Francois FeNelon Category: Brevity
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. – Sydney Smith Category: Brevity
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race. – Herman Kahn Category: War
A library is but the souls burying ground. It is a land of shadows. – Henry Ward Beecher Category: Libraries
