Top 100 Shortest Quotes

#1. In a British University, a final exam question on Business was:
"Define what risk is".
The shortest answer ever at one word was :
"This."
The student handed the essay in and got 100%.

Anonymous

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#2. Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on Earth.

Will Rogers

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#3. A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

Arthur Helps

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#4. Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

Victoria Moran

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#5. Samuel, safety is my watchword. Rest assured that proper procedures will be followed at all times."
Skipper giggled. "Tell me, Mump. What ARE proper procedures exactly?"
"Simple," said Mump. "One: cause maximum chaos in the shortest possible time. Two: try not to get your head blown off.

Steve Voake

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#6. The shot has gone under my rib, Boulard my boy, so it must have been the shortest one who fired.
Even his final sigh was a police investigation.

Timothee De Fombelle

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#7. There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing 'Perfect' is the shortest road to not achieving it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

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#8. My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#9. What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer ... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

Earle Brown

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#10. That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?

Victor Borge

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#11. Sometimes it's the shortest moments that create the longest impact.'

Neale Donald Walsch

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#12. If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.

Ernst T. Krebs

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#13. Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure. George Washington couldn't tell a lie.

Jay Leno

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#14. As Winston Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going." I know from hard experience that can be the longest journey down the darkest road. And I have learned that sometime the shortest distance isnt' forward, but up.

Tami Hoag

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#15. It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.

Lewis Black

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#16. People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.

Gary Saul Morson

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#17. The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

Johann Baptist Metz

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#18. Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

John Tillotson

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#19. They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

Philip Plait

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#20. Do things you don't want to do because it is the shortest, most guaranteed path to success: what you want in your life. It's not about getting a certain amount of money or a certain type of house, but what you want your life to look like.

Rory Vaden

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#21. We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves.

Thurston Moore

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#22. I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

Halsey

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#23. It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Francis Bacon

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#24. The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.

Will Burtin

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#25. My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.

Bowden Wyatt

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#26. 'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

Raymond Arroyo

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#27. Just like that, as quickly as our love came out in the open, it crawled back in the shadows; the shortest fairytale ever written.

S.E. Hall

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#28. Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

Chris Rock

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#29. The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Stephen Ambrose

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#30. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Samuel Smiles

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#31. I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who always said "John 11:35" straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.

Benjamin Clementine

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#32. The difficulty we meet with in reaching our goal is the shortest path to it.

Kahlil Gibran

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#33. The shortest road man walks, is sadly the road of gratitude!

Avra Amar Filion

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#34. Are you aiming for our make-up to be
the shortest in history or what?

Kristen Ashley

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#35. The journey from shame to resentment is the shortest on there is.

Josh Bazell

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#36. 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

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#37. Almost sure wasn't good enough. Almost sure, in my experience, is the shortest road to oh fuck.

Lilith Saintcrow

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#38. My dear," Rose said, "you might be surprised at how much happiness you can find in the pages of the shortest love stories. Unlike penises, their length truly does not count.

Samantha Sotto

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#39. You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock him down from point-blank range. You'll get him from in close. At long distance, it's questionable.

Erich Hartmann

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#40. In the country, a semicircle is the shortest line between two points.

Dana Burnet

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#41. Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine,

Christopher Benfey

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#42. Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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#43. Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

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#44. Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

Simon Fowler

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#45. Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise

Pope Pius X

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#46. The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

William C. Bryant

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#47. Shortest distance possible, finally reaching the bottom, the point of perfect rest.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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#48. The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

Theodor Adorno

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#49. Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.

Edward R. Tufte

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#50. Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.

Lanza Del Vasto

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#51. Yes, it is the Big Easy, home of the shortest hangover on the planet, where libation can greet you on Monday morning with the same smile as it did on Saturday night.

Matthew McConaughey

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#52. The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

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#53. We seem trapped in the Short Now. The present generation enjoys the greatest power in history, but it appears to have the shortest vision in history. That combination is lethal.

Stewart Brand

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#54. A lot of companies are still using social as the world's shortest press release.

Jay Baer

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#55. Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.

Matt Mullenweg

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#56. Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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#57. The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

Jacques Hadamard

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#58. The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Dan Simmons

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#59. Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest.

J.D. Robb

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#60. Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

Aristotle.

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#61. We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Bobby Clarke

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#62. One of the problems with being famous is people mob you wherever you go. Many of them ask very irritating questions. If I were not the shortest woman in the world, I would not have become famous.

Jyoti Amge

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#63. As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Bertolt Brecht

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#64. Spring is the shortest season.

Linda Pastan

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#65. There's something powerful about knowing the shortest way, even if you take the longer way because you know your mother-in-law is sitting home.

Stephen King

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#66. There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

Jean De La Bruyere

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#67. The original route, whether called U. S. 40 or something else, will furnish the main-traveled road until someone disproves the geometrical proposition that a straight line is the shortest distance between points.

George R. Stewart

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#68. But the shortest works are always the best.

Jean De La Fontaine

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#69. The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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#70. The shortest answer is doing.

George Herbert

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#71. The shortest path to peace is listening to understand, empathy and a willingness to compromise to alleviate suffering.

Jeffrey A. White

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#72. If the shortest distance to any man's heart is his stomach, then one of the better compliments a man can give a woman is to ask for seconds.

Tom Clancy

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#73. That that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same, for that only which is present, is that, which either of them can lose, as being that only which they have; for that which he hath not, no man can truly be said to lose.

Marcus Aurelius

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#74. Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points.

Stephen Hawking

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#75. The shortest path to success in art, if I could put it into words, is altruism, but if you don't care about anything in the world, and even get angry at people that show you the truth, how can you be altruistic?

Daniel Marques

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#76. Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest!

D.S. Mixell

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#77. If looks were to be believed, he still was just a boy. Something of my age, though from his solemn quietude, I knew he was old in the soul. A boy whose black crayon would be the shortest in his box.

Tiffany McDaniel

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#78. It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Ibrahim Babangida

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#79. The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but "health" is simply not one of them, because it is given.

Michael Pollan

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#80. At five feet, two inches, I am the shortest girl in my class.

Joelle Charbonneau

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#81. Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

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#82. Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest lines as well as their relations of intersection.

Hans Reichenbach

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#83. The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

Benjamin Tucker

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#84. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.

Henry David Thoreau

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#85. I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

Tony Robbins

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#86. Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.

Marcus Aurelius

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#87. Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

Alan Cohen

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#88. There are many paths to victory; choose the shortest one! There are many paths to defeat; choose the longest one!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#89. God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

Alfred Jarry

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#90. The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

Roy Blunt

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#91. Gratitude is the shortest path to happiness.

Harry Hoover

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#92. The easiest and shortest way to God -realization is through the contact of a Sadguru , which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.

Meher Baba

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#93. Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#94. The shortest distance between two idiots is a conga line.

Demetri Martin

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#95. The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.

Ryan Adams

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#96. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

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#97. Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

Robert Breault

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#98. Good interviewers share three features. They . . . obtain the greatest amount of accurate information relevant to diagnosis and management, in the shortest period of time, consistent with creating and maintaining a good working relationship (rapport) with the patient.

James Morrison

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#99. What is a date? A date is when two people, who hardly know each other, go out to dinner, and push their food around their plates nervously, while trying to ask as many questions as possible in the shortest possible time.

Danielle Steel

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#100. Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

Mark Twain

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