Top Shortest Quotes
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
Sun Myung Moon
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
Samuel Smiles
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Yakov Smirnoff
Hermann Ebbinghaus 
George Mikes 
Sun Myung Moon 
Samuel Smiles 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Warren E. Burger 
Thurston Moore All Shortest Quotes
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville 
76% of people like this quote
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
Sun Myung Moon
60% of people like this quote
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
Samuel Smiles
59% of people like this quote
What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
Earle Brown
58% of people like this quote
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
George Carlin
57% of people like this quote
The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
Pythagoras
56% of people like this quote
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