The longest day must have. an end. [ Proverb ]
He the cross who longest bears
Finds his sorrow's bounds are set. [ Winkworth ]
He that eats longest lives longest. [ 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 ]
Tranquil pleasures last the longest. [ Bovee ]
The longest day soon comes to an end. [ Pliny the Younger ]
They that drink longest live longest. [ Proverb ]
They that live longest must die at last. [ Proverb ]
She most attracts who longest can refuse. [ Aaron Hill ]
He lives longest that is awake most hours. [ Proverb ]
Stillest streams
Oft water greenest meadows; and the bird
That flutters least is longest on the wing. [ William Cowper ]
The longest life is but a parcel of moments. [ Proverb ]
They that live longest must go farthest for wood. [ Proverb ]
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing. [ Cowper ]
The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book. [ Attributed to John Wilkes ]
Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we shall see who can pound the longest. [ Wellington at Waterloo ]
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. [ Southey ]
In general, those who have nothing to say contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. [ Lowell ]
That happiness does still the longest thrive where joys and griefs have turns alternative. [ Robert Herrick ]
Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die. [ De La Bruyere ]
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? [ Walter Scott ]
The cheerful live longest in life, and after it, in our regards. Cheerfulness is the offshot of goodness. [ Bovee ]
He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest. [ James Martineau ]
Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. [ Johnson ]
Integrity is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and last longest. [ Tillotson ]
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. [ J. C and A. W. Hare ]
Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace: and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest. [ Landor ]
The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree. [ W. B. Clulow ]
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 ]
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 ]
A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow. [ Dr. Johnson ]
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. [ Dr. Johnson ]