A Quote by Hector Hugh Munro
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.
[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on.
Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it.
Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you are finite, weak and helpless. This is not true. You are not the body. You are not the senses. You are not the mind. These are all limited. You are the soul, which is unlimited. Your soul is infinitely powerful. Your soul defies all time and space.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
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