You may even find some of them repugnant or outrageous. No one will agree with all these quotations this was not their intention.
I make no apologies for my selections, only for the hundreds of other meritorious quotations I had to leave out. Any collection of pithy prose must necessarily be biased in terms of what it includes and excludes. They are superb examples of Mark Twain's famous dictum, "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." In principle, all writers and public speakers are capable of producing pithy prose, but clearly some are better at it than others. It's like being able to pour a liter of liquid into a half-liter bottle. What unites them is their ability to say more in one or two sentences than could be expressed in a thousand-word treatise. These short quotations can cover an unlimited variety of subjects: love, religion, politics, human nature, etc. I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose".
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