Quotes of Length - somelinesforyou

“ Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance. ”

- Joe Laurie Jr.

“ Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable. ”

- Christian Wolff

“ You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days. ”

- Ecclesiastes

“ The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it. ”

- Unknown

“ Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen. ”

- Steven B. Beach

“ When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions. ”

- George S. Patton

“ It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them. ”

- H. G. Wells

“ Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief. ”

- Unknown

“ Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire. ”

- Alexander Comfort

“ We praise a man who is angry on the right grounds, against the right persons, in the right manner, at the right moment, and for the right length of time. ”

- Aristotle

“ A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice. ”

- Unknown

“ All of man's troubles come from his inability to sit alone, quietly, in a room, for any length of time. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. ”

- Florence E. King

“ Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes to love him to whom he has done good. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ”

- Diane Ackerman

“ If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward. ”

- Unknown

“ It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late. ”

- Marilyn Moats Kennedy

“ It is not length of life, but depth of life. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length. ”

- Helen Keller

“ No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins. ”

- Mary Cholmondeley

“ One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen. ”

- Marvel Bell

“ The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ The true measure of a man is the height of his ideals, the breadth of his sympathy, the depth of his convictions, and the length of his patience. ”

- Unknown

“ The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. ”

- John Lyly
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