Top 46 Best Shortest Quotes
#2. The shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead
James Joyce
#3. Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
Will Rogers
#4. Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.
Khalil Gibran
#5. The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.
Samuel Hahnemann
#6. My last name should be "Why," because it is my destiny to question everything, including how to change my last name to one of the shortest questions and the question of all questions.
Jarod Kintz
#7. So during the rainy season the prudent person carries an umbrela, while the reckless person does not and, of course, gets wet when it rains. Prudence is not precise knowledge, but a willingness to adapt to circumstances in the shortest possible time.
David Albahari
#8. What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.
Jason Alexander
#9. 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
George Carlin
#10. So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.
Robert Breault
#11. Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.
Jim Rohn
#12. The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.
Winston Churchill
#13. In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#14. The shortest distance to leadership is service.
Myles Munroe
#15. The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton
#16. So true it is, that even the shortest step out of the immediate circle of one's best friends, is equal, in effect, to the remotest separation.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#17. Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
Mencius
#18. I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line.
Brad Wilkerson
#19. The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.
Jean De La Bruyere
#22. The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Anatole France
#24. Sometimes the shortest journeys take longest, don't they?
Sarah Waters
#26. Smile is the shortest and fastest communication between strangers.
Saru Singhal
#27. The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)
Michael Ben Zehabe
#28. I always thought that the shortest distance between failure and success is luck. It so appears now that if you account for the wait time, the shortest distance between failure and success is action.
Majid Kazmi
#31. A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Maria Edgeworth
#32. 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.
Tryon Edwards
#33. The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.
Paul David Manson
#35. It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#36. If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
Sri Aurobindo
#37. The children of Israel were led by God, not on the shortest route but rather the ordained route.
Lysa TerKeurst
#38. Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.
Napoleon Hill
#39. Way to equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creatures. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity - and liberty is added eventually by sleep. 297
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. She knew what she wanted and went after it by the shortest route ...
Margaret Mitchell
#42. Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.
Vladimir Vasiliev
#43. The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
Socrates
#44. We are surrounded by the dry thorns of the Inquisition on all four sides; throwing around words burning like fire is the shortest way to one's grave!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.
Michael A. Arnzen
#46. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.
Abraham Lincoln
