Mitch Hedberg Quotes

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

I've just always liked hotels. I like the bed and the sheets and everything that comes along with it.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

But the shortest works are always the best.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Conciseness is underrated

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

So I knocked on the door at this bed & Breakfast and a lady stuck her head out of the window and said: 'What do you want', I said, 'I want to stay here'. She said, 'Well stay there' and shut the window.

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Shorth is better than length.