Famous quotes containing the word short:
“If true that notion, which but few contest,
That in the way of wit short things are best,
Then in good epigrams two virtues meet,
For tis their glory to be short and sweet.”
—Anonymous. From A Collection of Epigrams (1727)
“There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deitys mind and were willing to reveal it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“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)
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