In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Lou Holtz

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Ogden Nash

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
Mae West

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Coco Chanel