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Vigorous Quotes

Vigorous writing is concise.

Vigorous writing is concise.

William Strunk, Jr.
Writing, Vigorous, Concise
The Elements of Style ch. 2 (1918)

Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.

John Galsworthy
Slang, Vigorous
1927 Castles in Spain and Other Screeds

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

George Eliot
Hope, Growth, Vigorous
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4195, Delphi Classics

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Determination, True Wisdom, Vigorous

Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

Jim Brosnan
Umpires, Vigorous
Jim Brosnan (1962). “Pennant Race”

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Virtue, Arise, Vigorous
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

Lydia Sigourney
Exercise, Constitution, Vigorous

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

Leland Ryken
Movement, Puritanism, Vigorous
Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.23, Harper Collins

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Enjoy, Enjoyment, Vigorous
"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Process, Aim, Vigorous
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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