Shortest Quotes

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

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 the catwalk. The clothes didn't fit and the shoes didn't fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn't prevent me from working.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves.

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 than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

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 to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

But the shortest works are always the best.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

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 it.

The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

The shortest answer is doing.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.