Short Quotes

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long. (Publilius Syrus)
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. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Everything that is exact is short. View quote
Joseph Joubert
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. View quote
Iris Murdoch
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. View quote
André Maurois
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. View quote
Winston Churchill
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. View quote
Hugh Hefner
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. View quote
Mother Teresa
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Life's too short. Start with Dessert! (Barbra Streisand)
Life is too short to be little. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. View quote
Henry van Dyke
A short saying oft contains much wisdom. View quote
Sophocles
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. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Love is so short and forgetting is so long. View quote
Pablo Neruda
Bring home a wife to your house when you are of the right age, while you are not far short of thirty years nor much above; this is the right age for marriage. View quote
Hesiod
Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul. View quote
Zhu Rongji
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. (George Eliot)
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. View quote
Shania Twain
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. View quote
Cicero
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! View quote
Roland Barthes