Short Quotes · Page 9

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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“They also serve who only stand and wait.”

— John Milton

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”

— John Dryden

“Patience is the art of hoping.”

— Vauvenargues

“Patience and shuffle the cards.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

— Lord Byron

“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”

— William Shakespeare

“Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.”

— William Shakespeare

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”

— Publilius Syrus

“Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep.”

— Lord Byron

“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”

— Charles Dickens

“Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.”

— Mark Twain

“Never laugh at live dragons.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

— Thomas Campbell

“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Lost time is never found again.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Time wasted is existence, used is life.”

— Edward Young

“Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.”

— Horace

“Act, act in the living present!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”

— Aeschylus

“The true University of these days is a collection of Books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“When we lack ourselves, we lack everything.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!”

— Abigail Adams

“A man may be a fool and not know it—but not if he is married.”

— H. L. Mencken

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