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The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
harriet beecher stowe— Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter 40: The Martyr (1852)
Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.
1st duke of wellington— At the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815), as quoted by Sir Walter Scott, in Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk (1815).
Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
— 1903 The Way of All Flesh, ch.39.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Robert Byron— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto13, stanza 4.
The beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 1821 'Epipsychidion', l.154-9.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey— 1812 The Doctor, ch.130.
Meanwhile, you will write an essay on'self-indulgence'. There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.
— 1928 Decline and Fall, pt.1, ch.5.
Hard pounding this, gentlemen, let'ssee who will pound longest.
— 1815 At the Battle of Waterloo,18 Jun. Quoted in SirWalter Scott Paul's Letters (1816), letter 8.
I didn't go to the moon, I went much furtherfor time is the longest distance between two places.
— 1945 Tom.The Glass Menagerie, sc.7.
Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.
gustavo gutierrez— Chapter Four, Different Responses, p. 34
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
— p. 13 (A Writer's Notebook (1946))
South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide!
dennis miller— 28 June 2004
If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself - and with the longest punch line.
robert patrick— "Pouf Positive"
A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.
jean-baptiste say— Book III, On Consumption, Chapter IV, p. 398
Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.
akira toriyama— Interview with Toriyama
I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with ‘hurler’ (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), ‘Riquet à la Houppe’ and the title of Maupassant’s book ‘Le Horla’, inspired by mental distraction.
jean dubuffet— Biographie au pas de course, in Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, Vol. IV, Jean Dubuffet, Gallimard, Paris 1995, p. 510
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
richard feynman— chapter 1, “The Law of Gravitation,” p. 34
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
marcus aurelius— II, 14. (Book II)
It is as a composer that his name will live longest. He was the last of the colourful Russian masters of the late 19th cent[ury], with their characteristic gift for long and broad melodies imbued with a resigned melancholy which is never long absent.
sergei rachmaninoff— Michael Kennedy The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, 3rd edn. (London: Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 516.
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
walter scott— Woodstock, Chap. xxxvii.
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. O reader, then behold and see! As we are now, so must you be.
Joseph Henshaw— Horæ Sucissive (1631), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
james russell lowell— James Russell Lowell, To Charles Eliot Norton.
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
james russell lowell— James Russell Lowell, An Oriental Apologue, Stanza 15.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 84.
Yet what can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
walter scott— Walter Scott, Woodstock, Chapter XXXVII.
It is as a composer that his name will live longest. He was the last of the colourful Russian masters of the late 19th cent[ury], with their characteristic gift for long and broad melodies imbued with a resigned melancholy which is never long absent.
— Michael Kennedy The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, 3rd edn. (London: Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 516.
This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there.
— Angelo, scene i
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
— W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 13
