Short Quotes

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry."
-Albert Einstein

"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
-Albert Einstein

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
-Voltaire

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."
-Abraham Lincoln

"..nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived where as adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years."
-George Orwell

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."
-Buddha

"A short saying oft contains much wisdom."
-Sophocles

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause."
-Mother Teresa

"This is the short and the long of it."
-William Shakespeare

"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."
-William Shakespeare

"There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place."
-Horace Mann

"Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty."
-Charles Peguy

"The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual."
-Seneca

"You only live a short time...and you are dead a long time.."
-Johan Huizinga

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
-John Locke

"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."
-Confucius

"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
-Ronald Reagan

"In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture."
-Henri Bergson

"But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose."
-G. K. Chesterton

"Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for."
-David Starr Jordan

"The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind."
-Ayn Rand

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths."
-James Madison

"Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history."
-James Madison

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
-Pablo Neruda

"Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)"
-Pablo Neruda

"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."
-Samuel Johnson