Check out a good collection of famous short quotes here. These short sayings & quotations are small in size, but profound in sense.

Home: Type Of Topics: Beauty & Personality Quotes: Short Quotes

Short Quotes

Short quotes are best for conveying your message rapidly, precisely and accurately i.e. in a few words. We have compiled some of the most famous short quotes in this article. These sayings and quotations beautifully express various aspects of life. You can use them to make your words more impressive as well as to convey your messages in a more appreciative way to everyone. We hope you enjoy our famous short quotes collection and find it useful.

Records 1-49 of 49

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

Robert Frost

The best use of life is to invest it in something which will out last life.

William James

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

A joke is a very serious thing.

Winston Churchill

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thomas Paine

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Abraham Lincoln

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Wilson Mizner

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

In the end, everything is a gag.

Charlie Chaplin

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

A ship in port is safe but that's not what ships are for ... sail out to see and do new things.

Grace Hopper

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. : Chinese Proverb

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Socrates

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.

William P. Merrill

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Dave Barry

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Paul Valery

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Bette Davis

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

Timothy Leary

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Gene Simmons

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

Ingrid Bergman

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Tom Stoppard

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

Ed Wood

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

Carl Sandburg

Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity.

Paul Bourget

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Warren G. Bennis

I like it short but it's getting farther and farther back, so it's growing long.

Chris Martin

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Bill Gates

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Thomas Wolfe

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Bo Jackson

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Daphne du Maurier

Celebrate we will because life is short but sweet for certain we're climbing two by two to be sure these days continue.

Dave Matthews

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

Natalie Portman

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams-I'm not knocking other teams-but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.

Derek Jeter

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

Sean Connery

You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?

Johnny Knoxville

Life is too short for a long story.

Mary Montagu

Long-range planning is not possible. It's a short-range planning situation.

Bill Russell

I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

George Stephen

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

Patrick MacGill

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

William Vickrey

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Yannick Noah

Records 1-49 of 49