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It is not length of life, but depth of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. -- Karl Marx
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it. -- Samuel Smiles
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. -- Rose Kennedy
Width of life is more important than length of life. -- Avicenna
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. -- Ptolemy
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. -- William Godwin
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. -- John Lyly
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. -- Woody Allen
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. -- Marilyn vos Savant
It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass. -- Jay Cooke
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. -- Arthur Smith
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner. -- Tallulah Bankhead
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation. -- David Attenborough
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule. -- Thomas Carlyle
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. -- Diane Ackerman
As a boy, without experience, never having spoken in public in my life, for any length of time, never ten minutes at once, I was called to preside over a stake of Zion. -- Heber J. Grant
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. -- Michel de Montaigne
While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish. -- Nathan Deal
A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself. -- Hugh Carey
I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces. -- Scott Bakula
Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span. -- William Browne
The great mystery of life is the length of it. -- Venita VanCaspel
Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot judge the value of a life by its length. -- Esther Hicks
Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts. -- Seneca the Younger
You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth -- Billy Graham
I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length. -- Avicenna
A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity. -- Thomas Ken
With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth. -- D. L. Hughley
Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well. -- Diane Ackerman
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. -- Plutarch
Life's like a play it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters -- Seneca
Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. -- Seneca the Younger
Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength. -- Mac Miller
Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. -- Seneca
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. -- Thomas Hardy
Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard. -- Julia Hill
~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~ -- Michel de Montaigne
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. -- H. L. Mencken
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. -- Woody Allen
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I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry. -- John Byrne
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it? -- Philip Pullman
Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem. -- Kiki Dimoula
If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams. -- T.A. Barron
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home. -- Horace
The OakLive thy Life, Young and old,Like yon oak,Bright in spring, Living gold;Summer-rich Then; and thenAutumn-changedSoberer-hued Gold again.All his leaves Fall'n at length,Look, he stands,Trunk and bough Naked strength. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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