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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Disputes

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

Time, Good, Wish

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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
John Steinbeck

Time, After, Space

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

God, Failure, Children

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Worry, Theory, Machinery

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

Two, Spirit, Run

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest Hemingway

Men, War, Nothing

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol

Enough, Afraid, Meaning

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Steven Wright

Number, Argument, Vegas

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
Clint Eastwood

Country, Everyone, Far

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Him, Rather, Door

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

Learning, Live, Keep

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Arthur Schopenhauer

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
Barack Obama

Faith, Time, Find

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

Time, Young, Become

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

Woman, Die, She

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Friend, Others

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Age, Men

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

Liberty, Cannot, Exist

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot

Good, Failure, Enough

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo

Mind, Congress, Streets

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Time, Past, Present

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman

Music, Marriage, Time

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
Charles Stanley

Alone, Friends, Challenge

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley

Men, Miserable, Worship

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

Food, May, Find

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William James

Keep, Devil, Foot

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
William Arthur Ward

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.
Hillary Clinton

School, End, Law

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