Short Quotes · Page 7

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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“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!”

— Lord Byron

“Youth is intoxication without wine.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

— William Shakespeare

“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Light sorrows speak, but deeper ones are dumb.”

— Seneca

“The busy have no time for tears.”

— Lord Byron

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

— Alexander Pope

“I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.”

— William Shakespeare

“The brave only know how to forgive.”

— Laurence Sterne

“Good, to forgive; best to forget.”

— Robert Browning

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

— Josh Billings

“To understand makes one very indulgent.”

— Madame de Staël

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

— Aesop

“I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.”

— Robert Burton

“It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.”

— William Shakespeare

“Kindness begets kindness evermore.”

— Sophocles

“When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning.”

— Albert Camus

“Knowledge is to the imagination what fuel is to flame.”

— Alfred Austin

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”

— Albert Camus

“Art is the great and universal refreshment.”

— John Galsworthy

“Art is the triumph over chaos.”

— John Cheever

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