Brevity is the body and soul of wit.


Jean Paul

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Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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ANKALA V SUBBARAO
Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
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Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I wil...
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Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I wil...
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Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you."
JUDITH VIORST
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER
I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
THOM GUNN
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Words
CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Pa...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
All men have a soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. ...
JEAN PAUL
For of the soul the body form doth take,For soul is form, and doth the Body make.
EDMUND SPENSER
For of the soul the body form doth take,
For soul is form, and doth the Body make.
EDMUND SPENSER
Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmar...
EVGENY MOROZOV
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.
SOMALI K CHAKRABARTI
Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it h...
ALAN ALDA
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
JOHN RUSKIN
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.
AMIT RAY
Trinity of the soul, body and mind is the geolocation of God.
MIHAIL MILITARU
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
OSCAR WILDE
Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the ex...
MICHAEL SHERMER
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the f...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Screenwriting is made of brevity.
A.D. POSEY
Discomfort: the valley between the body and the soul. Comfort: the bridge between the body and the s...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh...
C. JOYBELL C.
Hence the soul is nothing intrinsically real, nor is the body either; each of them exists in time on...
F.W.J. SCHELLING
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much mor...
D.H. LAWRENCE
Nourish the body, nourish the soul. Punish the body, punish the soul.
M.L. SHANAHAN
The beauty in the heart is the beauty of body, soul and spirit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its...
KATE CHOPIN
The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Safeguard the health both of body and soul.
CLEOBULUS
Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.
DONNA KARAN
In the struggle between the “needs” of the soul and the “wants” of the body, satisfy the sou...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE
Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.
AMIT RAY
Jean-Michel Basquiat's art, moved our generation in the Samo way, Martin Luther King moved the World...
ENRIQUE VEGA
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
ISADORA DUNCAN
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Hey you the "Supreme Power Within Myself" uplift my soul that I make no more mistakes and patiently ...
NEHA KOTHARI
If death is all about parting with body then immortality is about being dead when alive.
AKSHMALA SHARMA
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
CICERO
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

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BLAISE PASCAL
New Orleans is body and soul. The soul is the people and the body is the architecture, and you can't...
CAMILLE STRACHAN
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in m...
HENRY WILLIAMSON
We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
HOSEA BALLOU
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction
HOSEA BALLOU
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is hav...
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON
Chastity is not an attribute of body, but soul.
UDAI YADLA
The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the b...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
The body, mind and soul is like a bio-computer. The body is the hardware. The mind is the software, ...
JACK TYME
Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go ...
KO UN
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and la...
WILLIAM AMES
Sacred meditation is greatest medicine for the body, soul and spirit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Dr. Paul Ekman is a great guy... studying micro-expressions... gestures... and many other facial exp...
DEYTH BANGER
It adds to the glory both of soul and body
GEORGE HERBERT
Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.
GEORGE RIPLEY
Jean wanted it to be money-raiser. What do you do, hold a bake sale? She was the heart and the soul ...
ARDYTH WOODRUFF
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. FORSTER
The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.
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Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to dev...
MICHAEL GURIAN
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
ISADORA DUNCAN
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
FRANCIS BACON
Most people understand that the important things in life are not things at all - they are the relati...
JOHN PAUL WARREN
The brand is your soul, the product your body.
SAURABH UBOWEJA
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on
HORACE
They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body,...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, whose body Nature is, and God the soul
ALEXANDER POPE
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God end...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says t...
UNKNOWN
Go, Soul, the body
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more ...
WALT WHITMAN
The body and mind cannot provide answers for questions of the soul.
ALICE LANDRY
The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I hope to be an example for all. I hope.
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER
You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
JEAN-PAUL MARAT
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves sav...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the m...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multi...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE