It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, — that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, — that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium.
Robert OwenHard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.
1st duke of wellingtonYoung as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Robert ByronThese 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 InouyeL'amour qui na|"t subitement est le plus long a' gue rir. Love which strikes suddenly takes the longest to cure.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert SoutheyHard pounding this, gentlemen, let'ssee who will pound longest.
I didn't go to the moon, I went much furtherfor time is the longest distance between two places.
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 hammarskjöldMan'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.
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 sayThe chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.
Victory belongs to those that believe in it the most and believe in it the longest. We're going to believe.
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 aureliusIt 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 rachmaninoffIn general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
james russell lowellWhat deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.
lord byronYet what can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
walter scottIt 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.
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 mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.