#shorten

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. ↗

— Robert South

#contract #enlarge #faculty #fancy #far

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#lives #our #our lives #shortened #universally

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#ago #born #find #great #grow

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#especially #loan #make #off #over

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#hearer #journey #laugh #misfortunes #nothing

A good system shortens the road to the goal. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#good #road #shortens #system

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#campaigning #correspondent #did #era #having

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#challenge #day #every #every day #i

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#also #cakes #crusade #doing #good