Top 100 The Shortest Quotes
#2. A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Maria Edgeworth
#3. 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
#4. Sometimes the shortest journeys take longest, don't they?
Sarah Waters
#5. The children of Israel were led by God, not on the shortest route but rather the ordained route.
Lysa TerKeurst
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. She knew what she wanted and went after it by the shortest route ...
Margaret Mitchell
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead
James Joyce
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
George Carlin
#15. They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could be wrong.
Tom Robbins
#16. For much of the Internet, the shortest path between two points doesn't exist.
Kevin Poulsen
#17. 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
#18. You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
Anthony De Mello
#19. A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.
Paul Smith
#20. Sometimes the longest way around is the shortest way home.
Ryan Holiday
#21. Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
Haruki Murakami
#22. I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Bertrand Russell
#23. What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.
Ward Cunningham
#24. 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
#25. 4. God reveals to humanity, through His Word, the shortest route to success, prosperity and
well-being.
Sunday Adelaja
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.
Heather Donahue
#30. Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
William C. Bryant
#31. We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.
Charles Stanley
#32. 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
#33. Shug Avery sat up in bed a little today. I wash and comb out her hair. She got the nottiest, shortest, kinkiest hair I ever saw, and I loves every strand of it.
Alice Walker
#34. When you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.
Tyler Perry
#35. I rolled my eyes at Tasty Neck Girl. Oh, get over it. Would have been the shortest relationship of your life.
Kiersten White
#37. The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
Pythagoras
#38. Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: "The King is dead" and "Jesus wept."
Bill Moyers
#39. Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
Campbell Scott
#40. Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time.
Earl Nightingale
#42. The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination
Claude C. Hopkins
#43. The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#44. To make the world work for 100 percent of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
Russell Brand
#45. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
#46. Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on Earth.
Will Rogers
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#52. Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.
John Tillotson
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
Samuel Smiles
#57. The shortest road man walks, is sadly the road of gratitude!
Avra Amar Filion
#58. 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
#59. 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
#61. Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#62. 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
#63. The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
William C. Bryant
#64. Shortest distance possible, finally reaching the bottom, the point of perfect rest.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#65. 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
#66. Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.
Lanza Del Vasto
#67. 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
#69. 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
#70. A lot of companies are still using social as the world's shortest press release.
Jay Baer
#71. 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
#72. Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
Aristotle.
#73. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce
#79. There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.
Giacomo Casanova
#80. Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.
Thomas Keating
#81. Instead of winding and skirting, Roman roads tend to go straight to the top. The chariots were light and the shortest distance between two points seemed to have governed their surveyors. I've read that some of their roadbeds go down twelve feet.
Frances Mayes
#82. It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.
George Horace Lorimer
#83. [Mary] is the safest, easiest, shortest and most perfect way of approaching Jesus and will surrender themselves to her, body and soul, without reserve in order to belong entirely to Jesus.
Louis De Montfort
#84. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
Bernard DeVoto
#85. The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
Confucius
#86. The shortest distance between two points is the line from me to you.
Fisher Amelie
#88. The shortest horror story:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
Frederic Brown
#89. A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
William Faulkner
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.
Alan Cohen
#93. The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.
Roy Blunt
#94. 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
#95. I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.
John Bingham
#96. 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
#97. Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.
Robert Breault
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
