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title: "7 Short Short Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Short Short quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Short Short sayings and thoughts."
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> [Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-howe/sometimes-the-short-short-appears-to-rest-on-nothing-more-than-a/)

[Irving Howe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-howe/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/irving-howe-27693_anecdotes_sometimes-the-short-short-appears-to-res_944414.jpg)

> [I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirby-puckett/i-was-told-i-would-never-make-it-because-i-m-too-short-well-i-m-still/)

[Kirby Puckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirby-puckett/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/458/kirby-puckett-52548_because_i-was-told-i-would-never-make-it-because_1322925.jpg)

> [Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woody-allen/life-is-short-short-and-not-about-anything-except-what-you-can-touch/)

[Woody Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woody-allen/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e1/woody-allen-176_life_life-is-short-short-and-not-about-anythi_1550314.jpg)

> [Short is short and Tall is Tall You are what you are That is All!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cosgrove/short-is-short-and-tall-is-tall-you-are-what-you-are-that-is-all/)

[Stephen Cosgrove](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-cosgrove/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37d/stephen-cosgrove-27868_short_short-is-short-and-tall-is-tall-you-are_1927463.jpg)

> [There's nothing as short as short-term debt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-esar/there-s-nothing-as-short-as-short-term-debt/)

[Evan Esar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-esar/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/389/evan-esar-1689_debt_there-s-nothing-as-short-as-short-term-d_2261725.jpg)

> [I'm short and I know it proud to be short…if you short then you fun sized](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shar-rae/i-m-short-and-i-know-it-proud-to-be-short-if-you-short-then-you-fun/)

[Shar-rae](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shar-rae/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57a/shar-rae-5302_proud_i-m-short-and-i-know-it-proud-to-be-shor_2501665.jpg)

> [All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/all-pleasantry-should-be-short-and-it-might-even-be-as-well-were-the/)

[Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b39/voltaire-173_brevity_all-pleasantry-should-be-short-and-it-mi_2565436.png)

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