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209 Shortest quotes by 179 unique authors

I think we're the shortest relay team in history but we're fast. — Brittany MacLean
I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line. — Brad Wilkerson
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven. — Pope Pius X
The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours. — Jean de la Bruyere
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling… — Lord Byron
The shortest definition of religion: interruption. — Johann Baptist Metz
Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is… — Jay Leno
A lot of companies are still using social as the world’s shortest press release. — Jay Baer
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. — William C. Bryant
It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid,… — Charles Babbage
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human… — Socrates
The shortest way to get anywhere is to have good company. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in… — Will Burtin
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth. — Seneca the Younger
The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its… — Samuel Hahnemann
People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? Everywhere you… — L. Neil Smith
Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know… — P.D. James
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an… — Oscar Wilde
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer… — Abraham Lincoln
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and… — Charles Caleb Colton
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. — Marcus Aurelius
You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock… — Erich Hartmann
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive… — Brennan Manning

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