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Explaining is generally half confessing.

Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

For when any one explains himself guardedly, nothing is more uncivil than to put a new question. [Ger., Denn wenn sich Jemand versteckt erklart, so ist Nichts unhoflicher als eine neue Frage.]

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.