"Brevity is the soul of wit."
 
- Shakespeare (Hamlet, II:2)
 
 
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."
 
- Dorothy Parker (cited in While Rome Burns by Alexander Woollcott)
 
 
"Don't ever come and say, 'I wish I could have . . .' If you want to do it, do it now. If you wish, you can. It's up to you."
 
- Nana Mouskouri (quoted in a 2004 newspaper interview)
 
 
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
 
- George Bernard Shaw (Caesar and Cleopatra, Act III)
 
 
"Never retract, never explain, never apologize -- get the thing done and let them howl."
 
- Nellie McClung (attributed to one of her many political speeches)
 
 
"We only confess to our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."
 
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld (Maximes)