Famous quotes containing the word short:
“Love requited is a short circuit.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
“Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.”
—Burial of the Dead, first anthem, Book of Common Prayer (1662)
“We had the fairest view of Ktaadn.... The summit ... had a singularly flat, table-land appearance, like a short highway, where a demigod might be let down to take a turn or two in an afternoon, to settle his dinner.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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