Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Gertrude Stein

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Gertrude Stein

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Truman Capote

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke

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

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Hippocrates

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
Alfred Adler

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Sylvia Plath

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
Keith Richards

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence Darrow

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
William Butler Yeats

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
William Butler Yeats

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
William Butler Yeats

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
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