Compendious Quotes

#1. When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.

Samuel Johnson

#2. The object ... is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

Francis Galton

#3. Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

Lord Chesterfield

#5. The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.

Alex Ferguson

#6. The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

Kim Jong Il

#7. From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

Derrick Jensen

#8. I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

Albert Camus

#9. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.

Muriel Barbery

#10. I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school.

Brooke Fraser

#11. Several studies have focused on identifying an infectious agent as the cause of CFS/ME, and the EBV has received a lot of attention over the past two decades.

Rodger H. Murphree