Good things, when short, are twice as good.
— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
The Jesuits taught me, if you use a lot of words to express a thought, you're not thinking very hard.
Or you're covering your ass.
As Polonius said, "Brevity is the soul of wit."
As Dorothy Parker said, "Brevity is the soul of lingerie."
