Pithy Quotes

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

“Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.”
― Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation

“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, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“The lads I've met in cupid's deadlock
Were - shall we say? - born out of wedlock”
― Dorothy Parker

“The best kind of praise is intelligent praise.”
― Rachel Heffington

“It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light”
― josh stern

“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, A Taste for Death

“Money is a tool, so I don't have to be.”
― Eddie Mumford

“Why everybody in such a hurry to get old?”
― Scarlet Ibis James, Scarlet Birthright: What They Left Behind

“The thought of erasing one's identity and fitting in with the crowd is definitely scary. Action is a different matter though. We act all the time to fit in.”
― R. N. Prasher

“Stick to journalism, Mr Cort, where you never have to understand anything.”
― Iain Pears

“Nobody reaches anywhere by believing.”
― Osho

“You mean the whole thing with the waiter? That was nothing” Alex genuinely did not consider it a matter of import.

“Really? Alex, you expect me to believe that it was nothing?”

Alex thought about for a minute, chewed his rib eye and simply answered, “yes”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Souls' Inverse

“One doesn't expect a falcon to pull a plow, or a butterfly to cook your breakfast.”
― Katherine Blake, The Interior Life

“Don't borrow trouble that doesn't come to you on its own.”
― Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace