Long Quotes

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois

Marriage, Happy, Short

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science, Words, Rich

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson

Love, Friendship, May

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Benjamin Disraeli

Tell, Stories, Above

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James A. Baldwin

Yourself, Enough, Begin

In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka

Time, Food, Questions

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint Augustine

Friend, Him, Miss

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Age, Women, Fear

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.
Deepak Chopra

Best, Live, Mind

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke

War, Against, Venture

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams

Men, Honesty, Honest

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Power, Nor

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Made, While, Second

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time, Short, Present

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Short, Head, Comprehend

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley

Age, Past, Wrong

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen

Person, Cannot, Write

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli

Government, Opposition, Secure

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
Tom Hanks

Best, Forward, Yourself

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy

Successful, Everything, Find

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.
Freddy Fender

Love, Time, Romantic

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Douglas MacArthur

Live, Country, Die

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Robert E. Lee

Fight, Christian, Accept

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy

Work, Best, Home

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
Henry Rollins

Truth, Tell, Touch

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
William Wordsworth

Business, Tired, Sick

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Kin Hubbard

Home, Kindness, Times

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
Bette Davis

Sex, Two, Often

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin

Rich, Wish, Poor

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