Famous quotes containing the word short:
“When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of Watts hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, Give em Watts, boysgive em Watts!”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,the eternal laws!”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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