A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

Good advice is like a mini-skirt. It is short but covers the most important part.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

The legislation includes raising interest rates on student loans to 6.8 percent, as opposed to 4.7 percent, and it could raise as high as 8.5 percent.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.