Shortest

Famous quotes containing the word shortest:

“Jesus wept.”
—Bible: New Testament John, 11:35.

The shortest verse in the Bible; refers to Jesus’ grief at the death of Lazarus, whom he raised from the dead after four days.

“The shortest answer is doing.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon’s gin; out of any businessman’s life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.”
—William Bolitho (1890–1930)