Famous quotes containing the words long and/or term:
“Life is too short for a long story.”
—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
“No—is a term very frequently employed by the fair, when they mean everything else but a negative. Their yes is always yes; but their no is not always no.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. M, Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany, p. 203 (April 1803)