Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
Kin Hubbard
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
Arnold H. Glasgow
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
Charles Dickens
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Forecasting is not a respectable human activity and not worthwhile beyond the shortest of periods.
Peter Drucker
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
Timothy West
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
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
Proverb
Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.
Lois Capps
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference... it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
Thornton Wilder
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
Proverb
As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.
Solomon Ortiz