A Quote by Jean de La Fontaine

But the shortest works are always the best.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Always Best Shortest Works

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Jean de La Fontaine
French - Poet
July 8, 1621 - April 13, 1695

I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line.

Brad Wilkerson

The art of Navigation demonstrates how, by the shortest good way, by the aptest direction, and in the shortest time, a sufficient ship, between any two places (in passage navigable) assigned, may be conducted; and in all storms and natural disturbances chancing, how to use the best possible means, whereby to recover the place first assigned. Mathematical Preface

John Dee

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

Mark Kurlansky

The shortest follies are the best.

Pierre Charron

The best sentence? The shortest.

Anatole France

When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers. The show is scary and the scary stuff always works best with an intimacy with the audience. And the show is erotic, and I think erotic always works best when it's close to the audience, as well.

Frank Wildhorn

I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

Chester Brown

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.

Pope Pius X

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

Anatole France

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

John Cleese

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

Santiago Calatrava

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

Jean de la Bruyere

I'm a Tom Brady guy to the fullest. I love the way he manages the game, his mindset. He always works with less. He doesn't always have the best receivers, but he's going to make it work.

Kyler Murray

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.