Quotes with short-distance

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  • Aldous Huxley Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Josh Billings Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Hippocrates Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Nikita Khrushchev Life is short; live it up.
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Soviet statesman (1894 - 1971)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Life is too short for a long story.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • R. Porson Life is too short to learn German.
    R. Porson
     
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  • James Joyce Life is too short to read a bad book.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Vivien Leigh Life is too short to work so hard.
    Vivien Leigh
    English actress (1913 - 1967)
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  • Audre Lorde Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Publilius Syrus Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Anthony Hopkins Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
    Anthony Hopkins
    Welsh and American actor (1937 - )
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  • Joe Laurie Jr Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.
    Joe Laurie Jr
     
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  • Kin Hubbard Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Raymond Chandler Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • James A. Garfield Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Robert Benchley 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
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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