Best Shortest Lines

209 Shortest quotes by 179 unique authors

The shortest follies are the best. — Pierre Charron
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance… — B. H. Liddell Hart
I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that… — Khaled Mashal
August. The lines are the shortest, though. — Steven Rubenstein
There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of… — Giacomo Casanova
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit. — Criss Jami
God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity. — Alfred Jarry
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The shortest answer is doing the thing. — Ernest Hemingway
The shortest answer is doing. — George Herbert
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. — James Joyce
The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience. — Demetri Martin
The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought. — Pythagoras
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. — Jane Bryant Quinn
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. — Will Rogers
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities. — Mark Twain
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. — Will Rogers
Geniuses have the shortest biographies. — Claire Messud
The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons) — C.S. Lewis
One boy's footprints are not long in being lost in the snow, in the steadily falling snow of the shortest day, the longest night; they… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader… — Terry Goodkind
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy

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