Best Shortest Words
209 Shortest quotes by 179 unique authors
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Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice,…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest…
— S. J. Perelman
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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to…
— Mencius
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The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.
— Roy Blunt
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight…
— Earle Brown
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If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
— Sri Aurobindo
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Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.
— Gregory Chaitin
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
— Michel de Montaigne
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But the shortest works are always the best.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated…
— Gary Saul Morson
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The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I…
— Ryan Adams
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The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.
— Winston Churchill
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No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
— Raymond Arroyo
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In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing…
— Devon Aoki
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I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.
— Heather Donahue
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A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance…
— Rachel Johnson
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Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and…
— James E. Faust
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The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
— William C. Bryant
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179 authors contributed a total of 209 Shortest Quotes, led by these top contributors: