Short Quotes - page 3

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Life is too short to work so hard. View quote
Vivien Leigh
The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. View quote
Petrarch
I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. View quote
Jack Kerouac
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. View quote
Robert Frost
The stars are dead the animals will not look; We are left alone with our day, and the time is short and; History to the defeated; May say Alas but cannot help or pardon. View quote
W. H. Auden
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. View quote
Herbert Simon
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour Improve each moment as it flies Life 's a short summer, man a flower He diesalas how soon he dies. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. (Samuel Johnson)
Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth. View quote
Martin Feldstein
We take life seriously, but life's too short to take too seriously. That's where bouncy castles come in. View quote
Matthew Bellamy
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Childhood is a short season. View quote
Helen Hayes
Say not 'a small event' Why 'small' Costs it more pain that this ye call A 'great event' should come to pass From that Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed. View quote
Robert Browning
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits? View quote
John Templeton
[Shorter variant:] In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Good things, when short, are twice as good. View quote
Tom Stoppard
We need to love more rather than be loved.We need to give more rather than to take.We need to be more open rather than be closed off to new ideas.Life is short, so let's enjoy what it has to offer moment to moment. (Shannon Leto)
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress. View quote
Henry Fielding
In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Riddle of destiny, who can show; What thy short visit meant, or know; What thy errand here below. View quote
Charles Lamb
Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty. View quote
John Muir