1.
Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)
William Shakespeare
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
2.
Enough.
These few words are enough
If not these few words, this breath
If not this breath, this sitting here
This opening to the life we have refused again and again
Until now
Until now.
David Whyte
3.
A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
Ismail Merchant
4.
Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.
James Cagney
5.
Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
J. K. Rowling
6.
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
Abigail Adams
8.
Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.
Joan Aiken
9.
Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
Epictetus
10.
Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.
Paul Washer
11.
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
Francois Fenelon
12.
You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.
Sylvia Day
13.
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
Elie Wiesel
14.
If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.
Daido Moriyama
16.
The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
Martin Luther
17.
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.
Jeanne Moreau
19.
The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
Neil Diamond
21.
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
Tim Ferriss
22.
A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.
Moses ibn Ezra
23.
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future.
Can't you say the same thing about your life?
Dale Carnegie
24.
With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
Michelangelo
25.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words,
so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
26.
Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
Gautama Buddha
27.
Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
Roger Ebert
28.
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
Eric Hoffer
29.
With few words, one can speak the truth.
Bryan Adams
30.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Jean Rostand
31.
Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.
Scott Snyder
33.
Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
Brigham Young
34.
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.
Frank Muir
35.
He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words.
David Beckham
36.
The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.
Eckhart Tolle
37.
Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence
Albert Camus
38.
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
Robert Breault
39.
I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.
Patricia Moyes
40.
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
Sol Stein
41.
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
43.
A few words about ‘trannychasing.’ I am not a trannychaser. Ok, actually I am a trannychaser. No I am not. I am a trannycatcher! Just kidding!
Margaret Cho
44.
The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.
Will Rogers
45.
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
Ellen Goodman
47.
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
J. K. Rowling
49.
I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.
Bill Watterson
50.
... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like
or are poems.
Lipman Bers