Help me out here. There’s an old Lutheran proverb that says, “Life’s too short to have fun” or something like that. Do you remember it or one along the line of life being too short to somethingorother?
All I can think of is . . .
Life’s too short to drink the house wine.
Life’s too short to eat cheap chocolate.
Life’s too short to play the back nine. (That doesn’t make sense, and I’m not a golfer.)
Life’s too short to vote for Democrats.
Life’s too short to keep the yard mowed. (I wish that were true.)
Life’s too short to spend it thinking only about myself.
Life’s too short to avoid the next Andy Griffith marathon.
Life’s too short to avoid prayer.
What do you think? What is life too short for?
Life’s too short to read bad books.
It’s also definitely too short to drink the house wine.
I’m told the man who ran the greenhouse in my home town said, “Life’s too short to grow roses.”
I have never tested this.
I’d say life’s too short to read a dull book just because somebody else says it’s important.
That’s only after you’ve finished school, though.
Life’s too short to buy green bananas.
That’s a great one, Michael.
On dull books, I have to confess that I’m still caught up in that one. I need liberation. I still haven’t read Ulysses by Joyce, but I’m pulling in that general direction.
Loren stole mine. But on a similar note (since I’m an editor):
Life is too short to WRITE bad books.
I suppose, Nick, but most of us aren’t able to write good books until we’ve written some bad ones. I think it was Hemingway who said that every writer has about a million words of [expletive deleted] in him. His job is to write those million words out, as if flushing out a pipe, so the good stuff further down can come through.
“About a million words of …” I heard a similar quote attributed to Michael Crichton, but maybe he was paraphrasing Hemingway at the time.
The problem is that too many of us are at work on our SECOND million of [expletive deleted] words.
If an author MUST write those million words (and I’m not convinced they must–did Harper Lee write a million such words before “To Kill a Mockingbird”?), then let them write FAST.
Life’s too short to read blogs every day. Or to watch television any day.
Life is too short to waste time, or to stress over whether something you want to do is a complete waste of time.
These are great. Two cheers on the TV slam.
Here’s another contribution which, if you can pronounce it well, will impress your friends and enemies.
Brevior saltare cum deformibus mulieribus est vita
(Life is too short to dance with ugly women)
Brevior saltare cum deformibus viris est vita
(Life is too short to dance with ugly men)
Life’s too short.