Shortest Quotes

209 quotes by 184 authors

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
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
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
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? — George Carlin
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. — Stephen Ambrose
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
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. — Bobby Clarke
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
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points. — Leon Trotsky
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. — Robert Breault
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve. — Bertolt Brecht
If I'm going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress. — Kate Moss
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
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
Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness. — Alan Cohen
My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor. — Bowden Wyatt
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
The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist — Pope Pius X

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