Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
Jack Kerouac

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Mia Hamm

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. Mencken

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Denis Waitley

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.
Lee Trevino

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.
Lee Trevino

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
Charles M. Schulz