Top 100 Shortest Quotes
#1. If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
Sri Aurobindo
#3. Smile is the shortest and fastest communication between strangers.
Saru Singhal
#4. 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
#5. 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
#8. A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Maria Edgeworth
#9. 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
#10. The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.
Paul David Manson
#12. 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
#13. Sometimes the shortest journeys take longest, don't they?
Sarah Waters
#14. The children of Israel were led by God, not on the shortest route but rather the ordained route.
Lysa TerKeurst
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. She knew what she wanted and went after it by the shortest route ...
Margaret Mitchell
#19. Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.
Vladimir Vasiliev
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.
Michael A. Arnzen
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. The shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead
James Joyce
#26. Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
Will Rogers
#27. Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.
Khalil Gibran
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.
Jason Alexander
#32. 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
George Carlin
#33. So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.
Robert Breault
#34. 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
#35. The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.
Winston Churchill
#37. The shortest distance to leadership is service.
Myles Munroe
#38. 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
#39. Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.
Karen Kingsbury
#41. They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could be wrong.
Tom Robbins
#42. The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Jane Bryant Quinn
#43. Harrison's 8,400-word inaugural speech was the longest ever, while his 30-day Presidency was the shortest.
George Washington
#44. For much of the Internet, the shortest path between two points doesn't exist.
Kevin Poulsen
#45. There's never been anyone but you, Bryn ... ever. You've been that one shining star in the night sky, shining brighter than the others, until that's all you can see in the surrounding darkness." His lips rested over mine, for the shortest moment, before they fell away. "Your light is blinding.
Nicole Williams
#46. Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.
John Milton
#47. You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
Anthony De Mello
#48. The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
R. K. Milholland
#49. At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R.
Joseph Stalin
#50. A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.
Paul Smith
#51. Sometimes the longest way around is the shortest way home.
Ryan Holiday
#52. I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.
Tony Robbins
#53. English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson
#54. 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
#55. Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#56. The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.
Jan Tschichold
#57. After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.
Chuck Palahniuk
#58. Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
Haruki Murakami
#59. The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible ... and to serve others as much as possible.
Leo Tolstoy
#60. I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Bertrand Russell
#62. A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a time scale that is the planet's time scale. For me, it is almost unconscious now and is a kind of companionship with the earth.
John McPhee
#63. Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#65. What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.
Ward Cunningham
#66. Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#67. It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.
Emma Donoghue
#68. Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.
The Mother
#69. Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.
James E. Faust
#70. I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that ... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Khaled Mashal
#71. If I'm going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress.
Kate Moss
#72. God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#73. 4. God reveals to humanity, through His Word, the shortest route to success, prosperity and
well-being.
Sunday Adelaja
#74. The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
Terry Pratchett
#75. Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.
Albert Einstein
#76. 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
#77. It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.
Richard Reti
#78. Divorce of the intellect from body-labour has made of us the shortest-lived, most resourceless and most exploited nation on earth.(This is about Indians - due to caste division).
Shiva Naipaul
#79. Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is articulate, bright, and ... clean. I think we've seen the shortest presidential campaign in history.
Jay Leno
#80. Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.
Khalil Gibran
#81. I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.
Heather Donahue
#82. Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
William C. Bryant
#83. Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#84. We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.
Charles Stanley
#85. A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.
Gregory Chaitin
#86. The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.
William James
#87. The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
Michel De Montaigne
#88. She said, a child born at midwinter comes into the world on the shortest day of the year. From that point on, the days stretch out. And so a child born at midwinter walks always toward the light, all his life.
Juliet Marillier
#89. Why do most people take the shortest route to settle their differences and just walk off, break up and go separate ways instead of trying to talk and work things out?
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#90. Napping is often seen as a form of laziness. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hundreds of experiments have demonstrated the enormous benefits associated with even the shortest of sleeps, and so it is vital that you make napping part of your daily routine.
Richard Wiseman
#91. If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.
William Law
#93. 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
#94. The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
Demetri Martin
#95. Most likely because the majority of the receptionists have gone home, to a sick partner according to statistics, in the country with the shortest working hours in the world, the biggest health budget and the highest proportion of sick leave.
Jo Nesbo
#96. The latter think the shortest distance between two points is from a blonde to a bed.
Raymond Chandler
#97. In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn't fit and the shoes didn't fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn't prevent me from working.
Devon Aoki
#98. Well, the Dean has asked me to speak on "The Role of Logic in Human Affairs". Of course, if I take the injunction literally you shall hear the shortest lecture in recorded history!
Apostolos Doxiadis
#99. The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
Marcus Aurelius
#100. If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
Alan Cohen
