Length Quotes

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Nothing, Down

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill

Against, Read, Risk

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill

Against, Read, Risk

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

May, Youth, While

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Why, Knowing, Admire

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle

Time, Angry, Moment

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

Happiness, Makes, Height

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David Thoreau

Together, Youth, Earth

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore

Friendship, Depend, Depth

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne

Life, Find, Days

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus

Faith, Time, Enough

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock

Human, Film, Endurance

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Play, Acting

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx

Life, Health, Society

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley

Children, Small, Cannot

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Men, Rather

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle

Long, May, Winter

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead

Life, Live, Mistakes

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
Jim Samuels

Life, Marriage, Wife

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
John Locke

Great, Cannot, Ocean

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
Rose Kennedy

Life, Beauty, God

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
Lewis Carroll

Strength, Human, Dance

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Cleveland Amory

Time, Patience, Human

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Samuel Smiles

Great, Greatest, Thoughts

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
Robert Hall

Wisdom, Days, Seek

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Sure, Second, Agree

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
Richard M. Nixon

Today, Person, Hair

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
Aeschylus

Pain, Whole, Gods

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Makes, Talent, Genius

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