A Quote by Evan Esar

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Evan Esar

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Unnecessary Wise Word

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Evan Esar
American - Writer
1899 - 1995

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

William Strunk, Jr.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

William Strunk, Jr.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

Kabir

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

Grenville Kleiser

My word is my pride, the wisdom is weak, and that's word from the wise.

Lil Wayne

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Samuel Beckett

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

Barbara De Angelis

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

James Stephens

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.