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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Experience, Enough, Perfect

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

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

Friend, Others, While

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

Marriage, Disputes

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

Change, Death, Character

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

Worry, Theory, Machinery

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.
Clint Eastwood

Best, Until, While

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken

Wise, Woman, Matter

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich

Life, Women, Respect

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

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan

Science, Reason, Universe

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

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

Time, Young, Become

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

Learning, Live, Keep

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

Money, Lives, Soldiers

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Days, Run

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

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

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

Time, After, Space

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.
Mitt Romney

Time, Fear, Live

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day

Best, Judge, Mean

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Charles Spurgeon

Religion, Live, Enough

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

Woman, Die, She

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

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

Liberty, Cannot, Exist

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success, Great, Enough

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

Time, Past, Present

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis

Age, Live, Enough

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