Best Shortest Quotes
209 Shortest quotes by 179 unique authors
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I think we're the shortest relay team in history but we're fast.
— Brittany MacLean
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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
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Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.
— Pope Pius X
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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
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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
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The shortest definition of religion: interruption.
— Johann Baptist Metz
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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
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A lot of companies are still using social as the world’s shortest press release.
— Jay Baer
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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
— William C. Bryant
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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
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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
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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
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The shortest way to get anywhere is to have good company.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
— Seneca the Younger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.
— Jacques Hadamard
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The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
— Marcus Aurelius
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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
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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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