American Short

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or short:

    “In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.”
    —Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

    “If true that notion, which but few contest,
    That in the way of wit short things are best,
    Then in good epigrams two virtues meet,
    For ‘tis their glory to be short and sweet.”
    —Anonymous. From A Collection of Epigrams (1727)