“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.

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

“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.”