“Life is too short, and Proust is too long.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Apparently an invention by Maurice Sachs; see discussion in Quotes about Proust.
Misattributed
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
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“The years are too short, the days are too long.”
Joseph Heller book Something Happened
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“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”
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Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819–1901) British monarch who reigned 1837–1901
Source: Letter (16 May 1860), published in Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal Previously Unpublished edited by Roger Fulfold (1964), p. 254. Also quoted in the article "Queen Victoria's Not So Victorian Writings" http://www.victoriana.com/doors/queenvictoria.htm by Heather Palmer (1997).
“Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 124
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!”
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer
"The Mariner's Cave", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
