And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Mae West

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Rodney Dangerfield

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Thomas Paine

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Jonathan Swift

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
Voltaire

I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Lord Byron

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.
Johnny Depp

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Phyllis Diller

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
George Washington Carver

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero