Famous quotes containing the words collected and/or short:
“Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.”
—English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, no. 4321 (1732)
“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 (1817–1862)