(133 quotes found)
“Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.”
Camille Paglia
“No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect”
William Shakespeare
“Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. [During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos]”
William Scott
“Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.”
Dutch Proverb
“I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.”
Baltasar Gracian
“When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.”
Horace
“[Rudolph Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino's agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief”
Franz Kafka
