Shortness Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. — Jean de la Bruyere
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either… — Seneca the Younger
Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness… — Sally Ride
Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they… — Protagoras
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
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a… — Robert Benchley
A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles… — Theodore Parker
No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored' — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as… — Gautama Buddha
No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all. — Wallace D. Wattles
The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. — Luc de Clapiers
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to… — Joseph Addison
Today I saw cancer, cigarettes, and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean. Swim with sharks and jellyfish. I may never… — Ryan Ross
Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use… — Gerard Majella
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morningâ€”first fallen flake of the coming snows of ageâ€”is a… — Alexander Smith
It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words. — Henry Watson Fowler
I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me. — Dick Cavett
The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue… — Fernando Pessoa
The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life. — Winston Churchill

Who Wrote These Shortness Quotes

28 authors contributed a total of 29 Shortness Quotes, led by these top contributors: