The longest way round is the shortest way home
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Find the shortest & most convenient route of communications between the U. S. & the Pacific Ocean.
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
The straightest line between a straight distance is two points.
Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.
The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
