Short Quotes · Page 5

Big wisdom in few words—the best short quotes pack a lifetime of insight into a single sentence. Perfect for captions, cards, or a moment of daily reflection.

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“Every one can master a grief but he that has it.”

— William Shakespeare

“Winter is come and gone, but grief returns with the revolving year.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Acceptance is the better part of grief.”

— Paula Gunn Allen

“The center of every man's existence is a dream.”

— G. K. Chesterton

“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.”

— Will Rogers

“A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Perseverance, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“There is an element of failure in all success.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Success always demands a greater effort.”

— Winston Churchill

“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”

— Aristotle

“Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowheartedness.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”

— E. M. Forster

“Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.”

— Victor Hugo

“Have courage to use your own understanding!”

— Immanuel Kant

“All doubt is cowardice—all trust is brave.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

— Francis Bacon

“Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.”

— Edmund Burke

“Fear always springs from ignorance.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”

— Cicero

“Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.”

— Robert Burns

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

— Francis Bacon

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