Famous quotes containing the words collected and/or short:
“A hungry man is an angry man.”
—English proverb, no. 13, collected in James Howell, Proverbs (1659)
“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)