Quotes About Pithy

#1. The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

William Penn

#2. Are you good at keeping secrets, Merry?" "I'm better than some." I pause, then add, "More often than not, they keep me," only because it sounds simultaneously mysterious and pithy.

Paul Tremblay

#3. I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, Uh-oh.

Jim Butcher

#4. Grievance into a succinct and pithy phrase, while mobilizing the people to combat it. Our slogan

Nelson Mandela

#5. 'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.

Kate Christensen

#6. Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

Bergen Evans

#7. Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#8. Exactly. The most convincing argument doesn't come from pithy sayings or aphorisms, but through stories. A clear line of causality, from one event to the next, that seems to be leading to an inevitable conclusion." "We are fighting our guerrilla war battle by battle.

Edward W. Robertson

#9. I realised you can sit on the outside and complain and whinge and make clever, pithy observations on what the party is doing wrong, or you can get back into the fray.

Dee Madigan

#10. Goethe is always pithy.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.

Neal Stephenson

#12. Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

Edward Carpenter

#13. Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Denis Diderot

#14. I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.

Sarah Silverman

#15. I'd always imagined that I'd come up with something clever and pithy when it came to my last words, but as I stood there staring at those horrifying green eyes, I settled for a little startled profanity.

How embarrassing.

Kate SeRine

#16. How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?

Alexandra Robbins

#17. Clarke, define resplendent. I think it's shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give us a sentence with pithy. Clarke is pithy but adequate, sir. Adroit, McCourt. You have a mind for the priesthood, my boy, or politics. Think of that.

Frank McCourt

#18. The pain of love does not break hearts, it merely seasons them. The disappointed heart revives itself and grows meaty and piquant. Sorrow expands it and makes it pithy. The spirit, on the other hand, can snap like a bone and may never fully knit

Tom Robbins

#19. If you're going to yell at me, do it in English, please. I'd like to understand the insult so I can frame an appropriately pithy response.

Chloe Neill

#20. Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

Diablo Cody

#21. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

Jack Kerouac

#22. The trouble with you, Anne, is that you're thinking too much about yourself. You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her, said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. Anne instantly realized this.

L.M. Montgomery

#23. I haven't lived a full enough life to look back on, but I am too old to get by on being pithy and cute. I know enough now to know I know nothing. I am slugging away every day, just like you.

Amy Poehler

#24. This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

Neal Stephenson

#25. If each man, on hearing a wise maxim, immediately looked to see how it properly applied to him, he would find that it was not so much a pithy saying as a whiplash applied to the habitual stupidity of his faculty of judgement.

Michel De Montaigne

#26. A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#27. If only there was enough space on this tiny card to evoke my unfettered joie de vivre for what you have done. The gaiety, the mirth, the heavenly bubbling of every effusive cell that sings inside me for your kind and pithy offering.

Joshua Braff

#28. And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs ... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than the shark in the tank meant to frighten, more than the guy on the street meant to say something pithy about celebrity. More than this.

Michael Cunningham

#29. If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century ... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#30. People commonly misquote the old Sacrinomicon and say that money is the root of all evil, which is moronic if you think about it. The real quote is that the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil. Not as pithy, but a lot truer.

Brent Weeks

#31. What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

Haruki Murakami

#32. He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise.

J. Loren Norris

#33. The best kind of praise is intelligent praise.

Rachel Heffington

#34. The lads I've met in cupid's deadlock
Were - shall we say? - born out of wedlock

Dorothy Parker

#35. I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
(Letter 16, 1657)

Blaise Pascal

#36. Stick to journalism, Mr Cort, where you never have to understand anything.

Iain Pears

#37. Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you've been busily cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary.

P.D. James

#38. Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Isaac Asimov

#39. It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light

Josh Stern