Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.
Rita Rudner

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

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Marcus Aurelius

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Marcus Aurelius

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
Donald Trump

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Robert Kennedy

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

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
Lord Byron

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
Wilson Mizner

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Soren Kierkegaard

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
Dennis Miller

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

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

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
Malcolm X