Definition of long

"long" in the verb sense

1. hanker, long, yearn

desire strongly or persistently

"long" in the adjective sense

1. long

primarily temporal sense being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

"a long life"

"a long boring speech"

"a long time"

"a long friendship"

"a long game"

"long ago"

"an hour long"

2. long

primarily spatial sense of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified

"a long road"

"a long distance"

"contained many long words"

"ten miles long"

3. long

of relatively great height

"a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson

"looked out the long French windows"

4. retentive, recollective, long, tenacious

good at remembering

"a retentive mind"

"tenacious memory"

5. long

holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices

"is long on coffee"

"a long position in gold"

6. long

of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration

"the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long"

7. long

involving substantial risk

"long odds"

8. farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted

planning prudently for the future

"large goals that required farsighted policies"

"took a long view of the geopolitical issues"

9. long

having or being more than normal or necessary

"long on brains"

"in long supply"

"long" in the adverb sense

1. long

for an extended time or at a distant time

"a promotion long overdue"

"something long hoped for"

"his name has long been forgotten"

"talked all night long"

"how long will you be gone?"

"arrived long before he was expected"

"it is long after your bedtime"

2. long

for an extended distance

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Quotations for long

Long and lazy. [ Proverb ]

Patch and long sit,
Build and soon flit. [ Proverb ]

Sudden acquaintance
Brings long repentance. [ Proverb ]

Long lent is not given. [ Proverb ]

Life is short, art long. [ Hippocrates ]

A light heart lives long. [ William Shakespeare ]

One kindly deed may turn
The fountain of thy soul
To love's sweet day-star,
That shall over thee burn
Long as its currents roll. [ Holmes ]

The low stakes stand long. [ Proverb ]

Mad dogs cannot live long. [ Proverb ]

Short boughs, long vintage. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Long talk makes short work. [ Proverb ]

Threatened folks live long. [ Proverb ]

Rich men long to be richer. [ Proverb ]

Long life hath long misery. [ Proverb ]

Long jesting was never good. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A long ox and a short horse. [ Proverb ]

Short pleasures, long pains. [ Proverb ]

Love me little, love me long. [ Marlowe ]

We pardon as long as we love. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The short and the long of It. [ William Shakespeare ]

Bows too long bent grow weak. [ Proverb ]

Tarry-long brings little home. [ Proverb ]

Long experience made him sage. [ Gay ]

Long looked for comes at last. [ Proverb ]

Love me lightly, love me long. [ Proverb ]

He lives long that lives well. [ Proverb ]

As long as Meg of Westminster. [ Proverb ]

The belly hates a long sermon. [ Proverb ]

A shroved tree may stand long. [ Proverb ]

A long life hath long miseries. [ Proverb ]

In a long journey straw weighs. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Good cheap is dear at long-run. [ Proverb ]

A long-tongued, babbling gossip! [ William Shakespeare ]

He that lives long suffers much. [ Proverb ]

Sea things that be
On the hot sand fainting long,
Revive with the kiss of the sea. [ Lewis Morris ]

A sheepskin-shoe lasts not long. [ Proverb ]

A short pleasure, a long penance. [ French ]

A long harvest and a little corn. [ Proverb ]

Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song;
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste;
Still I would not have thee cold,
Not too backward or too bold;
Love that lasteth till 'tis old
Fadeth not in haste. [ Old Ballad ]

The old echoes are long in dying. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

How long have you known me, Jack? [ Yogi Berra, upon receiving a check from Jack Buck made out to Bearer ]

Autumnal agues are long or mortal. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is even as broad as it is long. [ Proverb ]

No road is long with good company. [ Turk. Proverb ]

Light suppers make long life days. [ Proverb ]

Long-travelled in the ways of men. [ Young ]

Fair and foolish, black and proud,
Long and lazy, little and loud. [ Proverb ]

Even reckonings keep long friends. [ Proverb ]

Art is long, and Time is fleeting. [ Longfellow ]

Oh, fear not in a world like this.
And thou shalt know ere long, -
Know how sublime a thing it is,
To suffer and be strong. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Light Of Stars ]

Next, with a long interval between. [ Virgil ]

It is a long lane that never turns. [ Proverb ]

Right reckoning makes long friends. [ Proverb ]

He liveth long who liveth well.
All else is life but flung away;
He liveth longest who can tell
Of true things truly done each day. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Bear the burden of the present,
Let the morrow bear its own;
If the morning sky be pleasant.
Why the coming night bemoan?

Holy strivings nerve and strengthen,
Long endurance wins the crown;
When the evening shadows lengthen,
Thou shalt lay the burden down. [ Thomas Mackellar ]

Be old early you you can long be so. [ Proverb ]

What is glory? what is fame?
The echo of a long-lost name;
A breath, an idle hour's brief talk;
The shadow of an arrant naught;
A flower that blossoms for a day.
Dying next morrow;
A stream that hurries on its way.
Singing of sorrow. [ Motherwell ]

God stays long, but strikes at last. [ Proverb ]

Things refuse to be mismanaged long. [ Carlyle ]

To draw a long bow (i.e. exaggerate). [ Proverb ]

Long and slender, like a cat's elbow. [ Proverb ]

A cool mouth and warm feet live long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The King is dead! Long live the King! [ Pardee ]

I have a dog of Blenheim birth.
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, running over the plain,
He tumbles on his nose:
But quickly jumping up again
Like lightning on he goes! [ Ruskin ]

Most men cry, Long live the conqueror. [ Proverb ]

Those that God loves do not live long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

From saying to doing is a long stride. [ Italian Proverb ]

Better deny at once than promise long. [ Proverb ]

Idle men are dead all their life long. [ Proverb ]

A hated government does not last long. [ Seneca ]

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave.
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. [ Longfellow ]

Love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

Responds -- as if with unseen wings,
An angel touched its quivering strings;
And whispers, in its song,
Where hast thou stayed so long? [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle,
The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Like angels' visits, short and bright;
Mortality's too weak to bear them long. [ J. Norris ]

'Tis long since death had the majority. [ Blair ]

Swift kindnesses are best: a long delay
In kindness takes the kindness all away. [ Anon ]

I hear the howl of the wind that brings
The long drear storm on its heavy wings. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

When a man's life is under debate,
The judge can never too long deliberate. [ Dryden ]

Our life contains a thousand springs.
And dies if one be gone.
Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long. [ Watts ]

Take-it-easy and Live-long are brothers. [ German Proverb ]

A long tongue is a sign of a short hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Folly is never long pleased with itself. [ Proverb ]

Labour as long lived, pray as even dying. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I know he will come by his long tarrying. [ Proverb ]

They live too long who happiness outlive. [ Dryden ]

Robed in the long night of her deep hair. [ Tennyson ]

Children have wide ears and long tongues. [ Proverb ]

Courtesy on one side only lasts not long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Good luck reaches farther than long arms. [ Proverb ]

There is, sir, a critical minute in
Every man's wooing, when his mistress may
Be won, which if he carelessly neglect
To prosecute, he may wait long enough
Before he gain the like opportunity. [ Marmion ]

Courtesy on one side can never last long. [ Proverb ]

It rose, that chanted mournful strain,
Like some lone spirit's over the plain;
'Twas musical, but sadly sweet,
Such as when winds and harp-strings meet,
And take a long unmeasured tone,
To mortal minstrelsy unknown. [ Byron ]

As long lives the merry heart as the sad. [ Proverb ]

It is as long a coming as Cotswold barley. [ Proverb ]

A gift long waited for is sold, not given. [ Proverb ]

Things may serve long, but not serve ever. [ William Shakespeare ]

And there at Venice gave
His body to that pleasant country's earth,
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
Under whose colours he had fought so long. [ William Shakespeare ]

As long as I live I'll spit in my parlour. [ Proverb ]

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;
They crown'd him long ago
On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,
With a diadem of snow. [ Byron ]

Things hardly attained, are long retained. [ Proverb ]

Marriage is sometimes only a long quarrel.

Gamesters and race-horses never last long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long. [ Schiller ]

The illusion is brief, the remorse is long. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The night is long that never finds the day. [ Macbeth ]

Man is liable to err as long as he strives. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd,
Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd! [ Moore ]

He lards with flourishes his long harangue. [ Dryden ]

The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
To join her comrades in the braided hive,
Where, housed beside their mighty honeycomb,
They dream their polity shall long survive. [ Charles (Tennyson) Turner ]

He that lies long abed, his estate feels it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Even wit is a burden when it talks too long. [ Dryden ]

A small demerit extinguishes a long service. [ Proverb ]

Long is the calm brain active in creation;
Time only strengthens the fine fermentation. [ Goethe ]

Not a long day, but a good heart, rids work. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Between saying and doing there's a long road. [ Proverb ]

One abides not long on the summit of fortune. [ Proverb ]

The honey-bee that wanders all day long
The field, the woodland, and the garden over.
To gather in his fragrant winter store.
Humming in calm content his winter song,
Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,
The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips.
But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness closely pressed
Within the poison chalice. [ Anne C. Lynch Botta ]

They talk of Christmas so long that it comes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To live long, it is necessary to live slowly. [ Cicero ]

Long ere you cut down an oak with a penknife. [ Proverb ]

Even wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. [ Dryden ]

A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here's health and renown to his broad,
green crown, And his fifty arms so strong.
There's fear in his frown when the goes down,
And the fire in the West fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storms through his branches shout. [ H. F. Chorley ]

I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from. [ Ben Jonson ]

A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love. [ Byron ]

A pleasure long expected is dear enough sold. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Live long and happy, and in that thought die;
Glad for what was. [ Robert Browning ]

Sweet letters of the angel tongue,
I've loved ye long and well.
And never have failed in your fragrance sweet
To find some secret spell -
A charm that has bound me with witching power,
For mine is the old belief,
That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,
There's a soul in every leaf! [ M. M. Ballou ]

Of no distemper, of no blast he died
But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long. [ Dryden ]

The war is not done so long as my enemy lives. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. [ German Proverb ]

Jewels, five words long,
That, on the stretched forefinger of all Time,
Sparkle forever. [ Tennyson ]

There is no past, so long as books shall live. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. [ Lapland Proverb ]

He that's long a-giving knows not how to give. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A journey were better too long than dangerous. [ Proverb ]

To know the world, not love her, is thy point;
She give but little, nor that little long. [ Young ]

The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake.
They sighed for the dawn and thee. [ Tennyson ]

Chickens are long in coming out of unlaid eggs. [ German Proverb ]

I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
By no change of its large calm front of snow. [ Robert Browning ]

Take heed of foul dirty ways, and long sickness. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased. [ Dryden ]

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together. [ Madame Necker ]

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure. [ Proverb ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

So wise, so young, they say, do never live long. [ William Shakespeare ]

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death and that vast forever,
One grand, sweet song. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Welcome as kindly showers to long-parched earth. [ Dryden ]

Nor love thy life nor hate; but what thou livest
Live well; how long or short permit to heaven. [ Milton ]

That life is long which answers life's great end. [ Young ]

And glory long has made the sages smile;
It is something, nothing, words, illusion, wind -
Depending more upon the historian's style
Than on the name a person leaves behind. [ Byron ]

It is natural to a greyhound to have a long tail. [ Proverb ]

That life is long which answers life's great end;
The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name;
The man of wisdom is the man of years. [ Edward Young ]

Life, unexplored, is hope's perpetual blaze
When past, one long, involved, and darksome maze:
But, that some mighty power controls the whole,
A secret intuition tells the soul. [ William Winter ]

The long days are no happier than the short ones. [ Bailey ]

Even a Venice-glass, if well kept, will last long. [ Proverb ]

In conversation dwell not too long on a weak side. [ Proverb ]

There needs a long time to know the world's pulse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

How long seems the night to the sorrow that wakes! [ Saurin ]

A good present need not knock long for admittance. [ Proverb ]

The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
In that close kiss and drank her whispered tales.
They say that Love would die when Hope was gone.
And Love mourned long, and sorrowed after Hope;
At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears. [ Tennyson ]

He lives long that lives till all are weary of him. [ Proverb ]

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain. [ Saurin ]

The common ingredients of health and long life are:
Great temperance, open air,
Easy labor, little care. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Never to use a long word when a short word will do. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Slow may that day approach, and long after our time. [ Ovid ]

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. [ Sheridan ]

O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc.1 ]

Thine eyes are like the deep, blue, boundless heaven
Contracted in two circles underneath
Their long, fine lashes; dark, far, measureless,
Orb within orb, and line through line inwoven. [ Shelley ]

My long period of service has led to no advancement. [ Juv ]

A good shift may serve long but cannot serve forever. [ Proverb ]

He had need of a long spoon that sups with the devil. [ Proverb ]

So long as you are ignorant, be not ashamed to learn. [ Proverb ]

As long as any man exists, there is some need of him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat. [ Proverb ]

You may follow him long ere a shilling drop from him. [ Proverb ]

Long is the story of her wrongs, tedious the details. [ Virgil ]

They seldom live long who think they shall live long. [ Proverb ]

How many things hath he to repent of that lives long! [ Proverb ]

Oh! he thou blest with all that Heaven can send.
Long health, long youth, long pleasure - and a friend. [ Pope ]

Long talking begets short hearing, for people go away. [ Jean Paul ]

No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot. [ Proverb ]

Be good, sweet child, and let who will be clever,
Do noble things, not dream them all day long;
Thus shalt thou make life, death, and the vast forever. [ Charles Kingsley ]

A short absence quickens love, a long absence kills it. [ Mirabeau ]

The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own face long. [ Proverb ]

Fair flowers are not left standing long by the wayside. [ German Proverb ]

You may gape long enough ere a bird fly into your mouth. [ Proverb ]

How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful! [ Jean Ingelow ]

On the pinnacle of fortune man does not stand long firm. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A noble man is led a long way by a good word from women. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He pulls with a long rope that waits for another's death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If your joys cannot be long, so neither can your sorrows. [ Proverb ]

He is good as long as he is pleased, and so is the devil. [ Proverb ]

If you tell every step you will make a long journey of it. [ Proverb ]

Better die outright than be all one's life long in terror. [ Aesop ]

Every plan desires to live long; but, no man would be old. [ Swift ]

Pylades and Orestes died long ago, and left no successors. [ Proverb ]

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long. [ Madame de Sevigne ]

There is difference between living long and suffering long. [ Proverb ]

Potted wisdom: Short sentences drawn from long experiences. [ Cervantes ]

The life of man is a short blossoming and a long withering. [ Uhland ]

Quarrels could not last long, were but prudence on one side. [ Proverb ]

The sun of freedom cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron. [ E. M. Arndt ]

Falsehoods which we spurn today were the truths of long ago. [ Whittier ]

Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. [ Milton ]

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. [ Proverb ]

That should be long considered which can be decided but once. [ Publius Syrus ]

Woman divine that they are loved long before it is told them. [ Marivaux ]

He that is fed at another's hand may stay long ere he be full. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The mind is slow in unlearning what it has been long learning. [ Seneca ]

It is difficult to relinquish at once a long-cherished passion. [ Catull ]

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

You look as though you would make the crow a pudding ere long . [ Proverb ]

A man does not please long when he has only one species of wit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon nor live too long. [ Lady R. Russel ]

Time divided, is never long, and regularity abridges all things. [ Mme. De Stael ]

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise. [ James Ellis ]

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought. [ Lowell ]

It will be long enough ere you wish your skin full of oilet holes. [ Proverb ]

It is good to be good in time, you know not how long it will last. [ Proverb ]

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A short man needs no stool to give a long lubber a box on the ear. [ Proverb ]

They have been at a great feast of language, and stolen the scraps.
They have lived long in the alms-basket of words! [ William Shakespeare ]

He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil. [ Proverb ]

As long as the heart preserves desire, the mind preserves illusion. [ Chateaubriand ]

The fly that plays too long in the candle, singes her wings at last. [ Proverb ]

It has been a great misfortune to many a one that he lived too long. [ Proverb ]

There is a long and wearisome step between admiration and imitation. [ Richter ]

Life that is too short for the happy, is too long for the miserable. [ Proverb ]

Things confirmed by long practice and usage have all the force of law. [ Hooker ]

Happiness is a bird that we pursue our life long, without catching it.

Nobody will persist long in helping those who will not help themselves. [ Johnson ]

It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. [ Longfellow ]

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. [ Ovid ]

He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Man had perished long ago, had it not been for public spirited persons. [ Proverb ]

Be the day short, or never so long,At length it ringeth to evening song. [ Heywood's Proverbs ]

The road to learning by precept is long, by example short and effectual. [ Seneca ]

Well, if my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. [ William Shakespeare ]

Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. [ Milton ]

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life. [ Chamfort ]

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long. [ Lady Rachel Russell ]

The devil hath owed me a cake of a long time, and now hath paid me a loaf. [ Proverb ]

The night appears long to those who are overwhelmed with sorrow and grief. [ Apollodorus ]

The animal with long ears, after having drunk, gives a kick to the bucket. [ From the Italian ]

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure. [ Ben Jonson ]

Nothing not a reality ever yet got men to pay bed and board to it for long. [ Carlyle ]

And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering over his aged brain. [ Scott ]

The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men.
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen. [ Bryant ]

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. [ J. C. Ryle ]

No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not. [ Rochefoucauld ]

I will fight the battle of liberty as long as there is a shot in the locker. [ David Paul Jones ]

Men would not live long in society if they were not the dupes of each other. [ La Bruyere ]

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. [ Shenstone ]

The way to make friendships that will last long is to be long in making them.

Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]

A man among children will be long a child, a child among men will be soon a man. [ Proverb ]

He that can read and meditate, need not think the evenings long, or life tedious. [ Proverb ]

The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived. [ Cicero ]

There needs a long apprenticeship, to understand the mystery of the world's trade. [ Proverb ]

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it. [ Bovee ]

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. [ Southey ]

Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. [ Emerson ]

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers. [ Bovee ]

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter. [ Saadi ]

To fear death is the way to live long; to be afraid of death is to be long a dying. [ Quarles ]

Glory long has made the sages smile; 'tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind. [ Byron ]

To make a long story short (not to detain you by long digressions more than enough). [ Horace ]

'Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. [ Grotius ]

If he had spewed so often as he has lied, he would have brought up his guts long ago. [ Proverb ]

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong. [ Spenser ]

No disguise can long conceal love where it really exists, nor feign it where it is not. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The gains of the wicked bring shortlived pleasure, but afterwards long continued grief. [ Antiphanes ]

Two persons will not be friends long if they cannot forgive each other little failings. [ La Bruyere ]

The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm! [ W. H. Gibson ]

There are few husbands whom the I wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at. [ Quarles ]

Error is very well so long as we are young, but we must not drag it with us into old age. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A time there is when like a thricetold tale long-rifled life of sweets can yield no more. [ Young ]

Don't drive at a fellow-creature, so long as there is a reasonable chance of hitting him. [ W. E. Norris ]

O sweet past! sometimes remembrance raises thy long veil, then we weep in recognizing thee! [ Mme. Louise Labe ]

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. [ Mme. Necker ]

Life is long enough for him who knows how to use it. Working and thinking extend its limits. [ Voltaire ]

Long, glorious locks, which drop upon thy cheek like gold-hued cloudflakes on the rosy morn. [ Bailey ]

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. [ Hippocrates ]

There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth. [ Boufflers ]

Superior strength is found in the long-run to lie with those who had the right on their side. [ Froude ]

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles, And waste the time, which looks for other revels. [ William Shakespeare ]

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human-being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. [ George Eliot ]

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within bounds, but pushed to excess they cause offence. [ Phaedr ]

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished. [ Beaconsfield ]

Every man acts truly so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties in himself. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them. [ Hazlitt ]

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life. [ Bishop Beveridge ]

By the long practice of caricature I have lost the enjoyment of beauty: I never see a face but distorted. [ Hogarth to a lady who wished to learn caricature ]

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, not do they long deceive. [ La Bruyere ]

Friendship is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. [ La Bruyere ]

When death consents to let us live a long time, it takes successively as hostages all those we have loved. [ Mme. Necker ]

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed. [ C. C. Colton ]

As long as you are fortunate you will have many friends, but if the times become cloudy you will be alone. [ Ovid ]

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. [ Seneca ]

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. [ Dante ]

Wit is, in general, the finest sense in the world. I had lived long before I discovered that wit was truth. [ Dr. Richard Porson ]

Trust no man till you have eaten a peck of salt with him, (i.e. known him so long as you might have done so. [ Proverb ]

From yon blue heaven above us bent, the grand old gardener and his wife smile at the claims of long descent. [ Tennyson ]

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated. [ Burke ]

Riches are like bad servants, whose shoes are made of running leather, and will never tarry long with one master. [ Brooks ]

The old saying is expressed with depth and significance: On the pinnacle of fortune man does not long stand firm. [ Goethe ]

You must continue learning as long as you do not know, and, if the proverb is to be believed, as long as you live. [ Seneca ]

All great designs are formed in solitude; in the world, no object is pursued long enough to produce an impression. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the church, counted its martyrs by thousands. [ James A. Garfield ]

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well. [ Quarles ]

Long customs are not easily broken: he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain. [ Johnson ]

Before every one stands an image (Bild) of what he ought to be; so long as he is not that, his peace is not complete. [ Rückert ]

So long as people are subject to disease and death, they will run after physicians, however much they may deride them. [ La Bruyere ]

As long as we work on God's line. He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines. He rebukes us with failure. [ T. L. Cuyler ]

I have always tried to write Saxon rather than Latin, in short words rather than long, and specially in short sentences. [ Edward Everett Hale, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

A passion for flowers is, I really think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand. [ Owen Feltham ]

Let Fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. [ Pope ]

The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. Sleep is the half of time which heals us. [ Richter ]

There are heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit, sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room. [ Fuller ]

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. [ Fuller ]

How long a time lies in one little word! Four lagging winters and four wanton springs End in a word: such is the breath of kings. [ William Shakespeare ]

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretenses, like flowers, fall to the ground: nor can any counterfeit last long. [ Cicero ]

Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Ah! would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way, from the eye, through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! [ Lessing ]

A coquette is to a man what a toy is to a child: as long as it pleases him, he keeps it; when it ceases to please him, he discards it.

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. [ Joubert ]

Midas longed for gold. He got gold, so that whatever he touched became gold; and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it. [ Carlyle ]

Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

It would take long to enumerate how great an amount of crime was everywhere perpetrated; even the report itself came short of the truth. [ Ovid ]

A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. [ Brooke ]

You will find rest unto your souls when first you take on you the yoke of Christ, but joy only when you have borne it as long as He wills. [ John Ruskin ]

Marriage is a romance until the book is open. True, the preface is sometimes amusing, but it never lasts long, and it is always deceptive. [ Poincelot ]

It has long seemed to me that it would be more honorable to our ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. [ Horace Mann ]

It takes an age to build a city, but an hour involves it in ruin. A forest is long in growing, but in a moment it may be reduced to ashes. [ Seneca ]

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities, and long ponder what your powers are equal to, and what they are unable to perform. [ Horace ]

Life often seems but a long shipwreck, of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love: the shores of our existence are strewn with them. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it. [ Fenelon ]

There may be some tenderness, in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart. [ Richard Alleine ]

Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained. [ The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (President Snow) ]

Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand, than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence. [ Lavater ]

Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Invective may be a sharp weapon, but overuse blunts its edge. Even when the denunciation is just and true it is an error of art to indulge it too long. [ Tyndall ]

The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed. [ Arthur Helps ]

Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. [ Lowell ]

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work today, would have to begin it again tomorrow. [ Colton ]

Art thou afraid of death, and dost thou wish to live for ever? Live in the whole that remains when thou hast long been gone{} (wenn du lange dahin bist). [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Had he not long read the heart's hushed secret in the soft, dark eye, lighted at his approach, and on the cheek, coloring all crimson at his lightest look? [ L. E. Landon ]

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only a long and painful sickness. [ Massillon ]

He that waits for repentance waits for that which cannot be had as long as it is waited for. It is absurd for a man to wait for that which he himself has to do. [ Nevins ]

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Had religion been a mere chimaera, it would long ago have been extinct; were it susceptible of a definite formula, that formula would long ago have been discovered. [ Renan ]

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden underfoot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? [ Mrs. Stowe ]

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance. [ St. Evremond ]

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which can never return. [ Johnson ]

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts. [ Bovee ]

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. [ Emerson ]

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer. [ Feltham ]

Resolution will sometimes relax, and diligence will sometimes be interrupted; but let no accidental surprise or deviation, whether short or long, dispose you to despondency. [ Johnson ]

The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

As a tract of country narrowed in the distance expands itself when we approach, thus the way to our near grave appears to us as long as it did formerly when we were far off. [ Richter ]

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be. [ Landor ]

I long to believe in immortality. If I am destined to be happy with you here - how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality - I wish to live with you forever. [ Keats ]

Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley, and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage? [ G. A. Sala ]

The female heart is just like a new india-rubber shoe; you may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long; and then let go, and it will fly right back to its old shape. [ Judge Haliburton ]

Adam knew no disease so long as temperance from the forbidden fruit secured him. Nature was his physician; and innocence and abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality. [ South ]

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred. [ Edward Everett ]

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. [ H. W. Beecher ]

With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. [ Macaulay ]

The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty - a woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with ourselves. [ Joubert ]

As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. [ Chatfield ]

It is hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another. [ Tillotson ]

Gravity, with all its pretensions, was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, viz., a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]

It's a long stretch between that first birthday speech and this one. That was my cradle-song; and this is my swan-song, I suppose. I am used to swan-songs; I have sung them several times. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is. [ Goethe ]

No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be. so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources. [ Horace Greeley ]

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches. [ Whately ]

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail. [ Lowell ]

The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

To give pleasure to others and take it ourselves, we have to begin by removing the ego, which is hateful, and then keep it in chains as long as the diversions last. There is no worse killjoy than the ego. [ Charles Wagner ]

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. [ Froude ]

Sow the seeds of life - humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold. [ F. W. Robertson ]

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence. [ Quarles ]

We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is inscribed, Drink, and away; but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment dwells in the memory. [ Tuckerman ]

In the whole course of our observation there is not so misrepresented and abused a personage as Death. The shortest life is long enough if it lead to a better, and the longest life is too short if it does not. [ Colton ]

So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]

What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. [ Whipple ]

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down. [ Chapin ]

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. [ Beecher ]

The name of a mother! what a long history does it bring with it of smiles and words of mildness, of tears shed by night and of sighings at the morning dawn, of love unrequited, of cares for which there can be no recompense on earth. [ Prof. Park ]

Burke's sentences are pointed at the end, instinct with pungent sense to the last syllable. They are like a charioteer's whip, which not only has a long and effective lash, but cracks and inflicts a still smarter sensation at the end. [ John Foster ]

Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more. He asks of thee works first and words after. [ Charles Kingsley ]

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty. [ Lamartine ]

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view. [ Goldsmith ]

What laborious days, what watchings by the midnight lamp, what rackings of the brain, what hopes and fears, what long lives of laborious study, are here sublimized into print, and condensed into the narrow compass of these surrounding shelves! [ Horace Smith ]

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. Long prior to reflection is the thinking of the mind. [ Emerson ]

He hazards much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. [ Roger Ascham ]

Flowers are esteemed by us, not so much on account of their extrinsic beauty - their glowing hues and genial fragrance - as because they have long been regarded as emblems of mortality - because they are associated in our minds with the ideas of mutation and decay. [ Bovee ]

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]

So long as thou art ignorant, be not ashamed to learn : he that is so fondly modest, not to acknowledge his own defects of knowledge, shall in time, be so foully impudent to justify his own ignorance; ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and, justified, the chiefest of all follies. [ Quarks ]

Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time. [ Emerson ]

Pain itself is not without its alleviations. It may be violent and frequent, but it is seldom both violent and long-continued; and its pauses and intermissions become positive pleasures. It has the power of shedding a satisfaction over intervals of ease, which, I believe, few enjoyments exceed. [ Paley ]

Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]

Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend; and when thy impartial judgment concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his; he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so. [ F. Quarles ]

It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. [ Albert Barnes ]

The maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best, has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]

The devil does not stay long where music is performed. Music is the best balsam for a distressed heart; it refreshes and quickens the soul. Music is a governess which makes people milder, meeker, more modest and discreet. Yes, my friends, music is a beautiful, glorious gift of God, and next to theology, I give it the highest place and the highest honor. [ Martin Luther ]

Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is an unjust person. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will last you until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. [ Trollope ]

It is a mathematical demonstration, that these twenty-six letters admit of so many changes in their order, and make such a long roll of differently-ranged alphabets, not two of which are alike, that they could not all be exhausted though a million millions of writers should each write above a thousand alphabets a day for the space of a million millions of years. [ R. Bentley ]

I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room I should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. [ Mark Twain, from his speech Courage ]

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business. [ Seneca ]

There is something too dear in the hope of seeing again.... Dear heart, be quiet; we say; you will not be long separated from those people that you love; be quiet, dear heart! And then we give it in the meanwhile a shadow, so that it has something, and then it is good and quiet, like a little child whose mother gives it a doll instead of the apple which it ought not to eat. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. [ Quarles ]

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. [ Emerson ]

We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure. [ Landor ]

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings, - a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. [ Hannah More ]

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanketmaking and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace. [ Ruskin ]

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge! [ Beecher ]

If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know. He started telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought: This story isn't too long. But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, Uh-oh, this story is getting long. But then the story was over, and I said to myself: You know, that story wasn't too long after all. I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

No woman is a genius: women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. They represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the colored. The plain women are very useful. If you want to gain a reputation for respectability you have merely to take them down to supper. The other women are very charming. They commit one mistake, however. They paint in order to try to look young. Our grandmothers painted in order to try to talk brilliantly. Rouge and esprit used to go together. That has all gone out now. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

long in Scrabble®

The word long is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters long:

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long in Words With Friends™

The word long is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters long:

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Words within the letters of long

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4 letter words in long (1 word)

Word Growth involving long

Shorter words in long

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Longer words containing long

along alongshore

along alongside

along comealong comealongs

along singalong singalongs

along ultralong

belong belonged

belong belonging belongings

belong belonging unbelonging

belong belongs

daddylonglegs

daylong

footlong

furlong furlongs

headlong

hourlong

lifelong

livelong

longa elongase elongases

longa elongate elongated nonelongated

longa elongate elongated unelongated

longa elongate elongates

longa elongating

longa elongation elongations

longa elongative

longa longacting

longa longae

longa longarmed

longa longawaited

longa prolongable

longa prolongate prolongated

longa prolongate prolongates

longa prolongating

longa prolongation prolongations

longball

longboard longboarded

longboard longboarder longboarders

longboard longboarding

longboard longboards

longboat longboats

longbow longbows

longchain longchained

longcloth longcloths

longdistance

longe longed belonged

longe longed prolonged

longe longer prolonger prolongers

longe longest

longe longevity

longe longexpected

longe melongene melongenes

longfaced

longfin

longgone

longhair longhaired

longhand

longhorn longhorned

longhorn longhorns

longhouse longhouses

longing belonging belongings

longing belonging unbelonging

longing longingly

longing longings belongings

longing prolonging

longish oblongish

longitude longitudes

longitudinal longitudinally

longitudinal nonlongitudinal

longlasting

longlegged

longlived

longlost

longnecked

longnose

longrun longrunning

longs alongside

longs belongs

longs comealongs

longs furlongs

longs longship longships

longs longshore alongshore

longs longshore longshoreman

longs longshore longshoremen

longs longsighted longsightedly

longs longsighted longsightedness

longs longstanding

longs longstyled

longs longsuffering

longs oblongs

longs oolongs

longs prolongs

longs singalongs

longterm

longtime longtimer longtimers

longways

longwinded longwindedness

nightlong

oblong oblongish

oblong oblongly

oblong oblongness

oblong oblongs

oolong oolongs

overlong

prolong prolongable

prolong prolongate prolongated

prolong prolongate prolongates

prolong prolongating

prolong prolongation prolongations

prolong prolonged

prolong prolonger prolongers

prolong prolonging

prolong prolongment

prolong prolongs

sidelong

weeklong

yearlong