He is richest that has fewest wants. [ Proverb ]

He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants. [ Danish Proverb ]

Men who have much to say use the fewest words. [ H. W. Shaw ]

No man is born without faults, he is best who has the fewest. [ Horace ]

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth. [ Publius Syrus ]

So vain is the belief that the sequestered path has fewest flowers. [ Thomas Doubleday ]

Say what you have to say in the simplest sincerity, in the fewest and shortest words. [ Gerald Massey, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. [ Swift ]

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. [ Swift ]

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. [ Ruskin ]