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

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

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Bertrand Russell

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.
Henry L. Stimson

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Childhood is a short season.
Helen Hayes

A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
Sophocles

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Sylvia Plath

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

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Life is short, the art long.
Hippocrates

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
Julius Erving

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.
Miley Cyrus

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

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
Audre Lorde