Quotes with longest

  • Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
  • One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
  • I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
  • Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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  • Bruce Jackson America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Thomas Wolfe Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Bipasha Basu For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams For time is the longest distance between two places.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Lord George Byron I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bryan Batt It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • J. R. Tolkien It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
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  • Bishop Joseph Henshaw Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be.
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  • Lord George Byron Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bishop Joseph Henshaw One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.
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  • Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Orville Wright Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
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  • Samuel Butler The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Cat Stevens The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Ouida The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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