Famous quotes containing the words short and/or writing:
“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”
—Aristotle (384322 B.C.)
“That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the bestIm sure it is the most religiousfor I begin with writing the first sentenceand trusting to Almighty God for the second.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)