Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Life is so brief and time is a thief when you’re undecided.
Rod StewartRod Stewart Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes If you’re short, don’t wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn’t wear little girls’ clothes. That’s going against your nature.
Diane Von FurstenbergDiane Von Furstenberg I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
Alexander The GreatAlexander The Great Pain is short, and joy is eternal.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
Lucy StoneLucy Stone Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.
George SorosGeorge Soros Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
Chuck BerryChuck Berry If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
John DonneJohn Donne I am so sorry that my feelings have the audacity to not be contained within one short sentence.
Gemma IversenGemma Iversen Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
George TakeiGeorge Takei Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
StendhalStendhal Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy
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