Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. — Ambrose Bierce
NOVEL, n. A short story padded... — Ambrose Bierce
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. — Audre Lorde
What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears. — Mark Victor Hansen
Life is short, yet sweet. — Euripides
Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters. — Eric Maisel
More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth. — Gary Vaynerchuk
When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short. — Thomas Brooks
The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further. — Daniel H. Pink
When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and… — Samuel Rutherford
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time. — E. W. Howe
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along… — Alice Childress
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. — Albert Einstein
A short retirement urges a sweet return. — John Milton
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. — Mark Twain
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run… — Dalai Lama
No one ever complains about a speech being too short! — Ira Hayes
When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering. — Bhakti Charu Swami
[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend]… — Anton Chekhov
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. — Bill Gates
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that… — Bill Bryson

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