Short life sayings

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

charlotte bronte

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

Author Unknown

Life's too short for chess.

H.J. Byron _Our Boys_

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

J. R. R. Tolkien

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Stendhal

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

Robert Doisneau

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Edgar Watson Howe

Life is short; live it up.

Khrushchev

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

Candice Bergen

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.

Solomon Short

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

Martin Short

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

Martin Short

Everything you do is always the best you could do at the time given the budget, the constraints, the reality of it.

Martin Short

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

Clare Short

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Shania Twain

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde
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