Rabbinic Nugget - The Short but Long Road

Another great snippet from the Babylonian Talmud:

I was once on a journey when I noticed a little boy sitting at the cross-road. 'By what road,' I asked him, 'do we go to the town?' 'This one,' he replied, 'is short but long, and that one is long but short.' I proceeded along the 'short but long' road. When I approached the town I discovered that it was hedged in by gardens and orchards. Turning back I said to him, 'My son, did you not tell me that this road was short?' 'And,' he replied, 'did I not also tell you: but long?'

Wonderful!