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Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Biography
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
Action
English Proverb

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Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
Widowhood
English Proverb

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If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
Health
Julius Erving

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Long-range planning works best in the short term
Planning
Doug Evelyn

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Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
Psychiatry
Gene Fowler

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Age and Aging
Benjamin Franklin

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The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.
Punctuality
French Proverb

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Politicians and Politics
John Kenneth Galbraith

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The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
Conflict
Margaret Gatty

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
Wisdom
German Proverb

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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Arts and Artists
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
Desire
Oliver Goldsmith

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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Brevity
Baltasar Gracian

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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
Presentation
Ira Hayes

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Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.
Doctors
Hippocrates

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In the long run, free trade benefits everyone; in the short run it is bound to produce much pain.
Free Enterprise
Henry Hobhouse

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Anger is short madness
Anger
Horace

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Whatever advice you give, be short.
Advice
Horace

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
Time and Time Management
Edgar Watson Howe

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Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
Guests
Kin Hubbard

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Waste
Victor Hugo

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
Death and Dying
Joseph Jefferson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun