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

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Josh Billings

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Henry Miller

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Shania Twain

Life is short, the art long.
Hippocrates