Source: The 13 Clocks
“A little too wise, they say, do ne’er live long.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) English playwright and poet
Act i. Sc. 1. Compare: "So wise so young, they say, do never live long", William Shakespeare, King Richard III, Act iii. Sc. 1.
The Phœnix (1603-4)
L. Neil Smith (1946) American writer
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Des Moines," http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2008/tle474-20080629-02.html 29 June 2008.
“A life postponed too long might never be lived.”
Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 2, Chapter 9 (p. 111)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Variant: Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Source: Eleven Minutes
“You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
“It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.”
Charles Frazier book Thirteen Moons
Source: Thirteen Moons
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
