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

But the shortest works are always the best.
Jean de La Fontaine

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
Warren E. Burger

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.
Simon Fowler

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
George Carlin

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
Gene Fowler

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
Ibrahim Babangida

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.
George Mikes

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Yakov Smirnoff

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
William C. Bryant

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
Stephen Ambrose

The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
Pythagoras

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
Bernard De Voto

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Henry Bolingbroke

The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Ernest Hemingway

The shortest answer is doing.
George Herbert

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Leo Aikman