Quotations on brevity

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
-Josh Billings
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
-Martin Luther
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
-Nietzsche
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
-Tryon Edwards
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
-Robert Southey
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
-Cicero
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
-F�nelon
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
-Hosea Ballou
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
-Cicero