Length Quotes

For a great willpower, no road has length!

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.

I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ’d, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.

The 4th sort of creatures… which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that I judged, that if 100 of them lay [stretched out] one by another, they would not equal the length of a grain of course Sand; and according to this estimate.

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.

A line is length without breadth.

When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they’re going to the store and they’ve got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves,