Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

There comes Coolidge and does nothing and retires a hero, not only because he hadn't done anything, but because he had done it better than anyone

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.