Short Quotes - page 2

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. (Henry Miller)
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. View quote
Mae West
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. View quote
Edward Albee
Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little". View quote
Dale Carnegie
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. View quote
Abraham Maslow
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. View quote
Anthony Trollope
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. View quote
Lewis Mumford
The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in. (Paris Hilton)
In short, luck's always to blame. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. View quote
Michelangelo
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. View quote
Hillary Clinton
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. View quote
Alan Turing
I wish life was not so short," he thought. "Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. View quote
J. R. R. Tolkien
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. View quote
Voltaire
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. View quote
John Locke
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. View quote
Albert Einstein
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history. (Frank B. Kellogg)
Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger. View quote
Channing Tatum
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. View quote
John Thomas Sladek
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. View quote
David Starr Jordan
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. View quote
Kevyn Aucoin