Short

Famous quotes containing the word short:

    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.
    Book Of Common Prayer, The. Burial of the Dead, “First Anthem,” (1662)

    You shall love peace as a means to new wars—and the short peace more than the long one.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
    Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)