“Cease, cows, life is short.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Colombian writer 1927–2014Related quotes
“Life is short, short, brother!
Ain't it the truth?”
"Ain't It the Truth" originally written for Cabin in the Sky (1943), but pulled from the show, and later included in Jamaica (1957) - Lena Horne version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMSyXuvNpeM
Context: Life is short, short, brother!
Ain't it the truth?
And there is no other
Ain't it the truth?
You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth!
Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?
Pt. I.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
“The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!”
Source: Blackadder II: Complete Series
“Life and hope must cease together.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen to Milicent
“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”
http://www.last.fm/user/helena_wanje.
“Was the cow crossed?"
"No, your worship, it was an open cow.”
"The Negotiable Cow".
Uncommon Law (1935)
Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
1860s, What the Black Man Wants (1865)
“And who’s to say where life ceases and theater begins”
Source: Triton (1976), Chapter 3 “Avoiding Kangaroos” (p. 113)