Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer. — Rose Wilder Lane
You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress… — Unknown Author
Life is eternal; death only punctuates it for a short while. After a little break life starts again. Death is ultimate truth; life is truth… — Mahesh Babu
Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go… — Chris Cagle
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory,… — Samuel Johnson
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today,… — Robertson Davies
Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be… — Paramahansa Yogananda
It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation… — Joseph Addison
The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it is better to… — Frederic Farrar
Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said,… — Edgar Allan Poe
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any… — Carl Sagan
"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I… — Anton Chekhov
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield… — Anton Chekhov
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics,… — Seymour Papert
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever… — Charles Dickens
Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph.… — Warren Buffett
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must… — George Eliot
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce
The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We… — Ernest K. Gann
‎‎‎‎Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity. — Michael O'Leary
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write… — Natalie Goldberg
The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo… — Isak Dinesen
Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live… — Bokar Rinpoche

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