Shortest Quotes
209 quotes by 184 authors
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
— Francis Bacon
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It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron.…
— Lewis Black
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and…
— Henry Bolingbroke
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'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
— George Carlin
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
— Stephen Ambrose
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This…
— Warren E. Burger
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We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
— Bobby Clarke
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Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute.…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
— Leon Trotsky
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Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.
— Robert Breault
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
— Bertolt Brecht
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If I'm going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress.
— Kate Moss
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way…
— Tryon Edwards
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So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.
— Alan Cohen
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My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.
— Bowden Wyatt
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Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there…
— Pope Pius X
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The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist
— Pope Pius X
Who Wrote These Shortest Quotes
184 authors contributed a total of 209 Shortest Quotes, led by these top contributors: