Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favours by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. View quotes by Baltasar Gracian
Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,
Who wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll View quotes by David Garrick
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. View quotes by Lewis Mumford
