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 Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of the Websters, Sumners and Everetts seem gaudy and silly. It is eloquence brought to a pellucid and almost gem-like perfection—the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

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