Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good.… — Sivananda
It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death. — Ban Ki-moon
I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the… — Charles Dickens
To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher… — J. William Fulbright
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He makes a July's day short as December. — William Shakespeare
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the… — Abraham Lincoln
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and… — Joseph Addison
Investors have very short memories — Roman Abramovich
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp… — Sigmund Freud
There are some who believe that because they have made mistakes, they can no longer fully partake of the blessings of the gospel. How little… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that… — Eric Maisel
It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold… — Kobe Bryant
I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one. — Winston Churchill
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. — Jack Handey
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm… — Naomi Wolf
Whatever advice you give, be short. — Horace
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey
We need to be kinder with one another, more gentle and forgiving. We need to be slower to anger and more prompt to help. We… — Howard W. Hunter
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for — David Starr Jordan

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