“I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.”

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.”

Джош Биллингс (Генри Уиллер Шоу) (1818–1885)

“A short poem is often called a lyric, which originally meant a poem short enough to be set to music and sung for a moment's pleasure.”

Herbert Read (1893–1968) English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art

“When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough.”
Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. Satis longa vita.

Seneca the Younger Moral Essays

“Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

“Knowledge is immense and life is short: therefore it is not obligatory to learn all the sciences, such as Astronomy and Medicine, and Arithmetic, etc., but only so much of each as bears upon the religious law: enough astronomy to know the times (of prayer) in the night, enough medicine to abstain from what is injurious, enough arithmetic to understand the division of inheritances and to calculate the duration of the Iddat.”

Ali Hujwiri book Kashf ul Mahjoob