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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.
These hearings will be remembered longest not for the facts they elicited, but for the extraordinary and extraordinarily frightening views of government they exposed.
Daniel Ken Inouye— 1987 On the Iran-Contra hearings. In the NewYork Times, 24 Jul.
L'amour qui na|"t subitement est le plus long a' gue rir. Love which strikes suddenly takes the longest to cure.
— 1688 Les Caracte' res ou les m½urs de ce sie' cle,'Du c½ur', no.12.
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 longest journeyIs the journey inwards.Of him who has chosen his destiny,Who has started upon his questFor the source of his being.
dag hammarskjöld— Variant translation: The longest journey is the journey inward, for he who has chosen his destiny has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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.
— Horæ Sucissive (1631), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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
The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.
— Attributed to John Wilkes by Robert Southey, The Doctor, Chapter CXVIII.
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.
In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 11 (Phineas Redux (1874))
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.
The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.
— The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)
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, Guesses at Truth.
