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

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

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

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
Erma Bombeck

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

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

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
Mitch Hedberg

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

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

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

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

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

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Sun Tzu

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde