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Famous Short Quote

Famous Short Quotes That Made History

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Great people are often people of few words. It is no wonder then that the greatest of quotes are short quotes. If you want to read a famous short quote, here are some at their laconic best.

Lord Tennyson
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Charlie Chaplin
In the end, everything is a gag.

William Shakespeare
Frailty, thy name is woman!

Virgil, Aeneid
Fortune favors the brave.

Winston Churchill
A joke is a very serious thing.

Will Rogers
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Mohandas K. Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.

Mohandas K. Gandhi
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.

Norman Lindsay
The best love affairs are those we never had.

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